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Artificial Intelligence – EU Ethics Guidelines
The Commission’s high level expert group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has published draft ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI. The guidelines are intended to ensure that AI [...]
EU/US Trade Talks
The Commission has published proposals for opening trade negotiations with the US on conformity assessment and on elimination of tariffs for industrial goods. This follows the joint statement agreed [...]
Tax – Move to More Qualified Majority Voting?
The Commission has published a Communication to open a debate on introducing more qualified majority voting (QMV) on tax matters. The Commission claims that the current requirement of unanimity [...]
Copyright Agreement
On 13 February, the EU institutions reached political agreement on the controversial proposed Copyright Directive. Tech giants such as Google and Facebook will be required to share revenue with [...]
UK Can Revoke Brexit, Rules European Court
The European Court of Justice (ECJ), on 10 December, ruled that the UK may unilaterally withdraw its notification to leave the EU without having to seek approval from the [...]
Impact of Brexit on Consumers in Financial Services
Brexit will have ‘unfortunate consequences’ for all consumers in the retail financial sector both in the UK and rest of Europe. Despite safeguards by EU and UK in the [...]
EU Council Agrees on Sharing E-Evidence
On 7 December, EU justice ministers approved a Regulation that will require EU-based tech companies to hand over electronic evidence of suspected criminals to law enforcement authorities across borders [...]
New Commission Strategy to Tackle Fake News
In the run up to the European elections during 2019, on 5 December, the Commission launched an action plan to tackle disinformation and fake news in Europe. The overall [...]
Commission Launches Co-ordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence
On 7 December, the European Commission presented a coordinated plan to promote artificial intelligence in Europe. It targets four priority areas: increasing investment, making more data available, fostering talent [...]
3rd Annual Plenary of the European Justice Stakeholder Forum 2018, European Economic & Social Committee
The 3rd EJSF plenary took place on 6 November 2018. Hosted once again by Arno Metzler, President Group III (Diversity Group) in the EESC, this year’s discussion was on [...]
European Justice Stakeholders Forum news
Registrations are now open for the 3rd annual EJSF plenary which will take place in the European Economic & Social Committee (EESC) on Tuesday 6 November from 08h30 – [...]
Parliament Position on Copyright
On 12 September, the European Parliament voted to approve controversial amendments to the proposed Copyright Directive. If adopted by EU member states (in Council), the changes would create a [...]
EU progress on Artificial Intelligence strategy
The Commission is pressing on with its strategy on Artificial Intelligence, launched in April this year. The strategy focuses on increasing investments to boost the EU's technological and industrial [...]
Rule of law in Hungary and Poland
On 12 September, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of asking EU Member States to determine, in accordance with Treaty Article 7, whether Hungary is at risk of [...]
New Rules to Protect EU Democratic Processes
As part of his SOTEU, President Juncker expressed his concern about current challenges to the rule of law in Europe - among others to freedom of the Press. With [...]
President Juncker’s State of the Union speech
In his annual State of the European Union (SOTEU) speech on 12 September Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker outlined the Commission’s priorities for his last year in office. These include [...]
Democracy in the EU
Upholding the rule of law and democracy are high on the EU agenda. On the occasion of the publications of the EU’s annual report on fundamental rights, 6 June, [...]
Anti-Money Laundering
‘Anti-Money Laundering’ During May the EU Council adopted the 5th anti-money laundering Directive. EU Member States have 18 months in which to transpose the Directive into national law. Meanwhile, [...]
Collective Redress for Consumers
‘Collective Redress for Consumers’ The European Commission has launched a package of measures to strengthen consumer rights under EU law. The package includes a proposed Directive on representative actions [...]
AI and Blockchain
‘AI and Blockchain’ Artificial intelligence and blockchain were major themes of the OECD's annual forum in Paris, 29 and 30 May 2018, which Passerelle attended. Forthcoming initiatives include a [...]
New E-Evidence Rules
‘New E-Evidence Rules’ The Commission has issued new measures to make it easier and faster for police and judicial authorities to obtain the evidence, such as e-mails or documents [...]