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2 days ago
For over a decade, Big Tech has approached the EU's robust data protection framework as little more than a compliance checkbox, rather than a set of binding legal obligations. A surprising body has been complicit in these Big Tech companies evading EU laws – the notorious Data Protection Commission (DPC) of Ireland.
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17 seconds ago
A pan-European subsidy regime to promote the sale of electric cars is set to be one of the early agenda items when EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen launches her ‘strategic dialogue’ with the EU’s car industry next week. 
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1 hour ago
Calling the new generation of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) simply 'new GMOs' would have been transparent — but such clarity would likely have sparked widespread public resistance to the European Commission’s legislative proposal to deregulate them.
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

3 months ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X

4 months ago
Leaders should ask themselves - is X really what I want my brand to be associated with?
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EUobserver's Top 10 stories of 2024

28 days ago
Allow us at EUobserver to blow our own trumpet as 2024 draws to a close, with a look back at the best of the journalistic path we follow — less frothy personality-driven politics, more policy, research and investigations.
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