UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.
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Franceโs love-hate relationship with Telegram
President Emmanuel Macron is an avid user of the app and his government granted Pavel Durov a French passport. That didn’t shield the Telegram CEO from arrest.
Privacy group fights European Parliament over โmassiveโ HR data breach
Employees’ ID cards, birth certificates and medical records were compromised in the breach.
Mass hacking and fundamental rights: a missed opportunity for the CJEU?
Hugo Partouche, Attorney-at-law
(avocat) at the Paris Bar, and Chloรฉ Berthรฉlรฉmy, Senior Policy Advisor,
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Germanyโs new Medical Research Act will allow pharma companies confidentiality on price
Germany will adopt its Medical Research Act, Thursday (4 July), the new law will allow pharma companies to negotiate the price of patent-protected medicines in private.
EU rebuffs threat of Beijing probe, stands by foreign subsidies law
The European Commission has dismissed China’s announcement that it could launch an investigation into the EU executiveโs alleged misuse of anti-subsidy legislation, saying the framework fully respects business confidentiality rules.
EU Media Freedom Act: the convolutions of the new legislation
Samira Asmaa Allioui,
research and tutorial fellow at the Centre d’รฉtudes internationales et
europรฉennes de l’Universitรฉ de Strasbourg
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Journalists are under pressure in
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MEP Krah accessed โsensitiveโ documents, EU Parliament trade committee chair says
Charges of spying and corruption spark call for internal parliamentary probe.
Top EU college terminates professorโs contract over sexual harassment claims
The College of Europe ends powerful Professor Oliver Costa’s contract.
Teesworks inquiry raises questions on governance in Englandโs devolved regions
Report noted a โculture of excessive confidentialityโ and โlack of transparencyโ
German governmentโs meeting with Iranian dissident ends in acrimony
‘If German policy is all about feminism, then I want to see actions,’ said prominent Iranian activist Masih Alinejad.
Amazon v DSA: insights from interim proceedings
Laureline Lemoine,
Senior Associate, AWO Agency
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via Wikimedia Commons
On September 27, 2023, the
President of the General Court, Marc van der Woude, issued an order
in the case of Tโ367/…
AWS digital sovereignty pledge: A new, independent sovereign cloud in Europe
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, designed to help public-sector organizations and customers in highly-regulated industries meet their evolving sovereignty needs.
Former Liam Byrne staff win payouts over bungled Commons bullying probe
Questions raised over election of business committee chair with history of complaints.
EU country buys 49 secondhand Leopard tanks for Ukraine, arms dealer says
Freddy Versluys says he has sold the former Belgium main battle tanks, which could be in combat in six monthsDozens of secondhand Leopard 1 tanks that once belonged to Belgium have been bought by a major European country for the Ukrainian army fighting…
Nigel Farage, the โdisingenuous grifterโ
The former politician has conflated two different issues: British banksโ overzealous interpretation of anti-money laundering regulations and Coutts simply not wanting him as a customer.
Why Britainโs most prestigious bank canceled Nigel Farage
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the prominent Brexiteer’s case raises free speech questions.
Senior MP Julian Knight accused of sexually harassing young women
POLITICO investigation finds three women in their 20s allege the MP harassed them in similar circumstances.
EU Commission pitches harmonisation measures for data protection enforcement
The European Commission presented on Tuesday (4 July) a legislative proposal to harmonise certain aspects of national procedural rules to speed up cross-border cases under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).ย
The European Peace Facility โ Another accountability gap?
Ellen Cantraine, PhD
researcher, Ghent European Law Institute
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Proposed AI Liability Directive: The EC lending a helping hand
Ida Varoลกanec
(PhD student, University of Groningen) and Nynke Vellinga
(post-doc researcher, University of Groningen)
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1. Objectives of the
proposal
On 28 …