Spain has introduced a thought-to-be-dead SOPA-style anti-piracy law. But it now appears that the U.S. government pressured — and threatened — Spain’s vulnerable economy. Spain has this week adopted a law similar to that of the SOPA in the United States, allowing sites to be blocked at ISP-... Read more...
Facebook will face a new legal challenge from Europe with the Telegraph reporting that a new law will prohibit the company from using users' information to produce bespoke advertising. The new directive from the European Commission would mean that Facebook would be unable to sell individuals' in... Read more...
Between the transposing of the EU Data Protection Directive in 1998 and the terrorist attacks in New York in September 2001, trade relations between the United States and the European Union were mutual, bilateral and safe. The arrangement between the U.S. and the EU — for which both contine... Read more...
Flying cars may be part of your reality sooner than you think. Through a project named myCopter, the European Union is investing €4.2 million (US$6.2m) to research the potential of Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) for Europe’s most crowded cities. The idea is for myCopter to attempt to solve ... Read more...
Live in Europe? Get your herbs while they last. New rules put forth by the European Union (EU) will ban the sale of certain herbal remedies that have been used for centuries. Traditional herbs such a St. John’s Wort or Echinacea must now meet strict licensing guidelines in order to be sold, whi... Read more...
Come its next elections in 2014, the parliament's constitutional affairs committee wants voters across the 27 European Union states to pick 751 constituency MEPs in essentially national contests, but now also 25 super MEPs from an EU-wide list of candidates. The bill's sponsor, Liberal Demo... Read more...
The EU apparatchiks are in crisis mode. European Union boss Jose Manuel Barroso told us not to worry, though. They’re on it. “This morning’s agreement will ensure that any attempt to weaken the stability of the euro will fail,” said Barroso today as the EU threw around a trillion bucks ... Read more...