ย โWeโre the only plane in the sky:โ 9/11 on board Air Force One
Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.
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Where Harris and Walz stand on 2024โs biggest policy issues
The rise of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket filled an already chaotic campaign year with โbratโ and โweirdโ and flipped the Democratic Partyโs misery into a cautious euphoria.ย Now, the pair has 11 weeks to sell voters on what a Harris-Walz administration might actually mean.ย There are areas where the duo are effectively in lockstep [โฆ]
Your Tim Walz policy guide: Where he stands on abortion, unions, energy and more
The Minnesota governor may bring rural appeal but his policies reflect a progressive agenda.
Washingtonโs most powerful interests donโt know whether to cheer Harris โ or dread her
Would she bring continuity with Joe Bidenโs policies? A more centrist vibe? A sharper progressive bite? Industries including tech, energy and pharma want to know.
Bidenโs biggest challenge: How do you even spend $1.6 trillion?
Congress gave Biden a historic sum to green the economy, revive manufacturing and fix crumbling infrastructure. But most of it is unspent.
EU Parliament overwhelmingly approves key telecoms regulation: price reductions down the road
The European Parliament approved on Tuesday (23 April) the EUโs broadband act, the Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA), which aims to accelerate the deployment of high-capacity networks and reduce prices for consumers
Shrinking Arctic ice redraws the map for internet cable connections
A new 14,500-km subsea cable in the Arctic could reroute data traffic away from vulnerable choke points.
EU broadband law: Agreement reached on intra-EU call abolition in 2029, voluntary tacit approval
Representatives of the EU Council, Commission, and Parliament agreed on a compromise text of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act: the tacit approval remains a voluntary principle while the abolition of intra-EU communication ‘surcharges’ is set for 2029-203…
30 Things Joe Biden Did as President You Might Have Missed
Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as president that you might not have heard about.
EU policymakers clinch toward agreement on broadband law
Ahead of the third political inter-institutional negotiation on 5 February on an EU regulation to speed up 5G and fiber roll out, co-legislators are dedicated to find compromises on the most political topics: the tacit approval principle and intra-EU c…
How to navigate Belgiumโs EU presidency policy agenda like a pro
Time is running out to make progress on files before the 2024 European election.
EU countries to remove โtacit approvalโ for admin procedures in broadband law
The Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU circulated a 4th compromise text on a telecom law, seen by Euractiv, which deletes the provision of a “tacit approval” principle.
Elections: leaving regions behind puts European project at risk
Why the 2024 vote is set to be the most contentious in EU history โ and the power of cohesion policy to unite.
EU push for Big Tech to fund 5G rollout shelved to 2025ย
Reuters exclusively reported that Europeโs telecoms operators pushing for Big Tech to help pay for the rollout of 5G and [โฆ]
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EU pushes for common ICT standards with China, Slovak elections test DSA enforcement on disinformation
Welcome to EURACTIVโs Tech Brief, yourย weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletterย here.ย โEU companies told me they face many obstacles and legal uncertainties in China.โ – posted Vฤra Jourovรก, Vice Preside…
Gigabit Infrastructure Act: from Commission proposal to trilogues
This week, the EuractivTech Brief podcast looks at the EU law on telecom infrastructures: the Gigabit Infrastructure Act. To find out how the legislation went from an European Commission proposal, amending the 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive, t…
Virgin Media O2 buys Russian-backed broadband provider
Investment company LetterOne was forced to sell the business on national security grounds
Ukraine walks telecoms tightrope between China and the West
Ukraine contemplates a ban on Chinese suppliers as the war-ravaged country plans to rebuild its digital infrastructure.
TechScape: โWithout the telcos, there is no Netflixโ โ the battle between streamers and broadband
An explosion of data use has led to massive infrastructure costs. Is the era of cheap all-you-can-watch content about to end?โข Donโt get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereThe writers and actors strikes in Hollywood hav…
Italyโs digital state secretary defines senders-pay initiative โprematureโ
Rome’s support for the initiative to make tech companies contribute to digital infrastructure can no longer be taken for granted, as the Italian state secretary for digital transition called any proposal on this matter ‘premature’ in an interview with …