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European Parliament considering yet another compromise on net neutrality
Ahead of the 2014 elections, the European Parliament voted with a large majority in favour of net neutrality and a coherent approach to internet providers’ interferences with our communications. In March 2015, the Council – representing the Member States – adopted its negotiating position which rejected all elements of the Parliament’s text. It removed the definition […]
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Parliament Committee adopts a disappointing position on TTIP
The European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) adopted this morning a position on the planned “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. “We are delighted with the campaigning activity surrounding this vote,” said Joe McNamee, Executive Director of European Digital Rights. “It is clear that Europe’s citizens will […]
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Parental Controls: Lawless blocking/filtering as part of “net neutrality”?
At the request of the United Kingdom, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and European Parliament appear ready to adopt – in the context, ironically, of measures that are supposed to protect net neutrality – provisions which are meant to allow UK-style blocking and filtering across Europe. This approach was opposed in […]
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Net neutrality – is the European Parliament ready to accept complete failure?
After an overwhelming vote in favour of net neutrality by the European Parliament in April 2014, this position in favour of free speech, competition and innovation is now in danger. The negotiations between the European Parliament (the only directly-elected institution of the European Union) and the Council of the European Union (“the Council,” representing the […]
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Privacy Cafés launched to improve secure communications in the EP
Ever since the publication of documents from the Snowden archive, which indicate that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (CGHQ) were behind the cyber-attacks on the European institutions, an improvement of the European Parliament’s IT security was to be expected. The report by Civil Liberties Committee Chair Claude Moraes on […]
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Legal Affairs Committee: ISDS and IPR must be excluded from TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) resolution in the European Parliament is coming to a conclusion. 16 April 2015 was the deadline for European Parliament committees to submit their opinions to the leading committee, the International Trade committee (INTA). EDRi-gram previously reported about the positive vote of the Civil Liberties Justice and Home Affairs […]
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Net Neutrality: document pool II
On 4 March 2015, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union received the mandate from the Member States to start negotiations with the EU Parliament and the Commission on the “Telecommunications Single Market Regulation”, which includes provisions on net neutrality. The trialogue discussions between the three institutions officially started on 23 March 2015. […]
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NOW OR NEVER: European citizens stand up to save the internet
Today, European civil society groups have relaunched “Save the Internet”, a European wide campaign aimed at defending net neutrality in Europe. The campaign calls on concerned internet users in Europe to contact their representatives in the European Parliament to ask them to maintain their strong position on net neutrality. Internet users will lose the freedom […]
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Data protection and privacy must be excluded from TTIP
Data protection is a contentious issue in the discussions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other trade or investment agreements, such as the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Now that the European Parliament is preparing to issue a non-legislative resolution on TTIP, various parliamentary committees are giving their input to the committee […]
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Parliament’s work on copyright enforcement – not worth copying
The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) adopted an Opinion on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement, in response to the European Commission’s Communication entitled “Towards a renewed consensus on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: an EU Action Plan”. It starts by offering support for “the” “follow the money” approach. The only problem […]
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Civil society calls for inclusion in the EP Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Reform
Ensuring a Balanced Representation of Views in the EP Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Reform
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Preparations for a comprehensive copyright reform in the EU Parliament: Document pool
In the field of EU copyright policy, there are two European Parliament own-initiative reports (which will become a non-binding non-legal resolution) which EDRi is following closely. Firstly, there is the report on the implementation of the so-called “InfoSoc Directive” by Julia Reda. This report analyses a Directive which contains core elements of EU copyright law, including […]
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