Tag Archives : European Commission

The confidence in Europe in not following the U.S. example may be over and perhaps it adopts rules to ensure fair access to the Internet may not prove lasting, as it intensifies the competition between mobile operators and service providers such as Skype. The debate over net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, [...]

Owners of famous trademarks have convinced the European Commission to allow sites to block sales without physical store not to distribute their products, claiming a need to protect their image. But eBay and consumer groups say the new rule may hurt online trade at the time that the Commission intends to promote this market. The provision is part of [...]

Open source expert Tim Yeaton, who is president and CEO of American Black Duck Software, feels that European Commission (EC) should not dirty its hands in the mergers between companies for it is going to cause more damage than good. He feels that EC should not involve itself in the merger of Oracle and Sun nor with the future of MySQL. Interference [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, [...]

If there is something about quaint European towns that make them almost wondrous, they are the narrow cobbled streets which look so awesome. However, cleaning these pretty streets can be a problem as garbage trucks cannot wade through narrow streets. Thus, the European Commission has funded $3.9 million for the Dustbot project. The Dustbot is a midsized [...]

The ban in Germany of GM maize from Monsanto is another defeat for the European Commission which campaigns for the lifting of all bans on MON810 in the EU. After Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, and Luxembourg, Germany announced on April 14 that it would suspend cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically-modified maize called MON810. Minister of Agriculture [...]

The process of enlargement of the European Union (EU) is in crisis because of the seriousness of the economic recession and the deep differences on the European integration process. Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to call a pause in consolidation following the rapid addition of 12 countries. This policy shift has jolted the expectations of [...]

At least seven EU countries (Portugal, France, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Spain) are willing to share a few dozen prisoners at Guantanamo which the Bush administration had ordered released because of the US inability to hear and judge their cases. The US is not willing to host these prisoners nor could they be repatriated to their countries of [...]

It is a blow on the pro-GMO position of the European Commission. The European Union member countries rejected, on Monday March 2 in Brussels, the lifting of the prohibition on the culture of genetically modified corn (MON810) by the American firm Monsanto, being forced in Austria and Hungary. The vote occurred just as EC executives are at the point [...]

The European Commission announced on Tuesday, March 3 that it will finance a European coalition against the profusion of pedophile pornography on the Internet. This is under the auspices of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU). As part of the UN’s Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA), the agency created the Child Online Protection (COP) [...]