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The European Parliament has passed a new copyright regulation promising to give content creators fair pay for their work, but a controversial part of the law also threatens free speech and the free and open internet in Europe.
On Tuesday MEPs concluded two and a half years of negotiations by passing the EU’s new copyright reform to regulate the digital single market. Parliamentarians voted 348 in favour, 274 against, 36 abstentions. The...
CIVICUS Monitor update on Lithuania - March 2019
Ahead of the European Parliament elections in May, a new report warns that not a single EU member state has ensured that elections are accessible to all. Released on 20 March by the European Economic and Social...
The French Constitutional Council has ruled that using bone tests to estimate the age of young migrants is constitutional. These controversial examinations are known to have a significant margin of error. This case...
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The former prime minister of Slovakia and current leader of the country's Smer party has used his bully pulpit to once again disparage independent journalists. Robert Fico, who left office in the aftermath of the...
When the Cambridge Analytica revelations became a global scandal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated at the time that Facebook learned of the data sharing in 2015, and from the media. But, according to new revelations,...
The European People’s Party suspended Hungary’s Fidesz party before one bad apple could spoil the bunch.
After agonising over its relations with Hungarian member party Fidesz, on Wednesday evening in Brussels the European People’s Party agreed to suspend the membership of Viktor Orbán’s party. The EPP will send an...
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