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    Data server
    Press release |

    Commission proposal first step to end Wild West of Internet giants

    We welcome the European Commission's move to end the Wild West style Internet giants and to make online platforms accountable for how they spread content and when they remove content from users.
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    Social media icons on phone screen / CC0 dole777
    Opinion |

    Fighting for your rights online

    Did you know that the EU's internet rules haven't changed in 20 years? The reform of the rules through the "Digital Services Package” has the potential to be either a threat to fundamental rights or a major improvement.
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    Dromm CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
    EP Strasbourg
    News |

    Plenary Flash 14-18 December 2020

    During this week plenary session, the European Parliament will debate and/or vote on digital services act, the conclusions of the European Council meeting, water legislation, new strategy for European SMEs, European Year of Rail, Council configuration on Gender Equality, ...
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    Monitor showing Java programming/ CC0 Ilya Pavlov
    Monitor showing Java programming/ CC0 Ilya Pavlov
    Opinion |

    Terrorist Content Online Regulation

    Patrick Breyer
    Opinion by Patrick Breyer
    Preventing the recruitment of terrorists is an important objective. We want incitement to violence, glorification of terrorism as well as bomb-building instructions published by terrorist organizations to be removed from the Internet. But the means to achieve this goal, as proposed by the Commission and supported by Council, are problemat…
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    Event |

    The Risks of Discrimination of Biometric Mass Surveillance

    Throughout the European Union, governments are experimenting with highly intrusive systems of facial recognition and other biometric mass surveillance in public spaces. At the same time, there has been a global uproar against the usage of these technologies due to their alarming consequences for fun...
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    Event |

    Affordable Housing

    We want to have a conversation about ‘the AirBnB-effect.’ The expansive growth of short-term holiday rental is extracting housing from the market and driving up prices, and has a negative impact on liveability in large cities and popular tourist destinations in Europe.  This phen...
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    ©hassan-anayi
    European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    A Greens/EFA take on the plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence, deforestation, gender equality in EU’s foreign and security policy, the state of the Energy Union, the Energy Charter Treaty, serious security threats through the sale of EU passports and visas and the T…
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    Press release |

    European Parliament votes to overhaul business model of internet platforms

    The reports on the EU Digital Services Act have been adopted by a large majority. MEPs voted for the European Commission to provide a clear legal framework for online platforms, to set out guidelines for dealing with indications of illegal content and to end the arbitrary blocking and deletion of content by online platforms.
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    People sitting at a table with laptops/ CC0 Headway
    Opinion |

    Put rights and freedoms at the centre of the upcoming Digital Services Act

    Patrick Breyer Alexandra Geese Marcel Kolaja
    Opinion by Patrick Breyer & Alexandra Geese & Marcel Kolaja
    The farming population is in freefall, with Europe having lost 50% of its farmers in 20 years. Consumers are demanding healthier food produced as close to home as possible.
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    Photo European Parliament - Architecte : Association des architectes du CIC : Vanden Bossche sprl, C.R.V. s.a., CDG sprl, Studiegroep D. Bontinck
    Photo Hemicycle Brussels
    News |

    Plenary Flash October II 2020

    During this week plenary session, the European Parliament will debate and vote on the Common Agricultural Policy, Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Equality in EU’s foreign and security policy, State of the Energy Union, ...