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Human Rights | Bridge EU

Bridge EU aims to provide strategic support to bridge the gap between recent social and human rights challenges and policies across Europe.

Commission proposes tech sovereignty package to strengthen Europe\'s digital autonomy and resilience

The European Commission today presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a set of measures to strengthen Europe\'s capacity in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and open source.

Operationalizing the Legal Principle of Data Minimization for...

Article 5(1)(c) of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires that "personal data shall be [...] adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to...

The EU Inc. Proposal: how far does it really go?

A post by Gillis Waelkens and Stéphanie De Smet (Clifford Chance)

EU–INC — One Europe. One Standard. — Pan-European legal entity.

EU–INC is a proposal for a pan-European standardized legal entity to unlock pan-European startup scaling.

Throwing your rights under the Omnibus - how the EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of bureaucracy. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise th...

Head of copyright committee wants to deny EU creators the right to share - Creative Commons

Over the last few years the European Union has been working on revising its rules on copyright. But the latest proposal from the head of the copyright committee would deny creators the right to refuse remuneration — the right to share a work without getting paid — which could undermine the use of CC licenses…

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.

Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the

Scoping report: Future challenges to democracy | CoP CC on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

The report from the European Commission identifies 10 key challenges and emerging trends impacting European democratic systems and suggests future policy options. These challenges are structured across three interconnected levels: citizens and societal dynamics, the information and knowledge environment, and institutions and the democratic system. This framework aims to provide a comprehensive and integrated view of democracy as a connected ecosystem, emphasising how challenges in one area can affect the entire system.

EU copyright reform: the facts – Open Policy & Advocacy

Ahead of the crucial EU copyright vote on 12 Sept., we set the facts straight and explain exactly what the new rules will mean for the internet in Europe.

Un démantèlement d’ampleur des lois environnementales est en cours en Europe, alerte un collectif d’ONG

Vingt mesures de dérégulation ou d’affaiblissement du droit de l’environnement ont été adoptées depuis 2024 au niveau de l’Union européenne ; trente nouveaux reculs sont en cours de discussion, ont comptabilisé les organisations non gouvernementales.

The EU AI Act Is Ready – Interdependent Thoughts

A final draft of the European AI Regulation is circulating (here’s an almost 900 page PDF). The coming days I will read it with curiosity.

The Ceuta Crisis Puzzle: A Moroccan Operation? - CSDS

The instrumentalisation of migration can be used to conduct hybrid warfare along all of the EU’s external borders, including the southern flank. Certain plausible hypotheses about the mass unauthorised crossings into Ceuta, Spanish territory in North Africa, suggest Moroccan involvement. The orchestration of illegal migration can have cascading negative effects by boosting the anti-migration discourse of far-right political forces in Europe.

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EUrouter — EU Data Residency for AI

Use one API for AI inference on European infrastructure, with configurable routing, retention, and provider controls.