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Online rights activists have called for a sweeping overhaul of dated online privacy rules, in a letter published on Wednesday (24 April). The EU’s ePrivacy legislation needs to protect encryption and remove Facebook-style pay-and-consent models, said an open letter to the European Commission sent by 14 organisations, including European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Access Now. EU online privacy laws, first set out in 2002 and amended in 2006 and 2009, now seem dated given the rapid evolution of the internet. But plans to reform the law to offer better online protections and new business opportunit...
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“Night trains are the future,” says Georges Gilkinet, Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Mobility. It’s something he hopes to persuade his EU colleagues of as Belgium presides over the Council of the European Union this year. During the next EU informal meeting of transport ministers in Brussels in early April, Gilkinet will put night trains firmly on the agenda. Together with Austria, Belgium has led the development of night trains in recent years. Both countries now want other EU member states to focus on connecting Europe’s major cities by sleeper train. Here’s why Gilkinet is...
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EU sanctions imposed on Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin have been quashed by the EU courts in a judgment released today (20 March). In March 2022, Mazepin was barred from entering the EU and had funds frozen in retaliation for Russia’s war in Ukraine. His team, Haas, also promptly canceled his driving contract, as well as its sponsorship deal with Uralkali, a Russian fertiliser company owned by Mazepin’s oligarch father Dmitry. “The association between Mr Nikita Mazepin and his father is in no way established from an economic or capital perspective” by EU legislators, the EU’s General Court sa...
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EU member states on Friday (15 March) have voted in favour of a landmark new law requiring companies to check supply chains for dodgy environmental and labour practices. MEPs and government officials struck a tentative deal on the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, or CSDDD, in December – but its future was thrown into doubt after last-minute hesitation from Germany and Italy. Now the measures seem likely to pass into law, after Italy approved a stripped-down version of the legislation at a regular meeting of diplomats in Brussels. Environmental and social activists such as Oxfa...
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The Belgian government has now proposed to triple a turnover threshold to cut the number of companies cut by a landmark supply chains law, Euronews has been told. Though tentatively agreed by MEPs and governments in December, the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, CSDDD, has suffered repeated setbacks, after German finance minister Christian Lindner voiced his opposition. A proposal circulated by the Belgian government in recent days would limit the CSDDD to companies with more than €450m in worldwide turnover, as it seeks to square opposition from major member states, two sourc...
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Euro area ministers on Monday (11 March) agreed a wishlist of financial reforms – led by a controversial relaunch of securitisation, the banking-sector instruments that caused the last financial crisis. Compared to other major economies like the US, the EU economy is largely dependent on bank financing – and policymakers are keen to find alternatives such as fundraising via stock issuance. Of the 13 measures proposed by finance ministers, number one was to help banks to offload risks via the complex structured products – but that isn’t without its controversy. The proposals seek to “deregulate...
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Negotiators are seeking a last-ditch compromise on new EU corporate supply-chain rules, as opposition from Italy and Germany and looming elections threaten to quash hopes for the environmental law. The bloc’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) would require companies to check their supply chains for poor working conditions or pollution – but was blocked by major EU nations, led by German finance minister Christian Lindner. In a document dated 5 March and seen by Euronews, the Belgian government – which currently chairs the EU Council grouping of member states – is seeking...
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New EU rules requiring companies to check supply chains for environmental and social issues now appear in jeopardy, after Germany and Italy appear to have blocked them in a secret vote by diplomats. The draft Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive requires firms to ensure their business model is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and lets trade unions and non-government organisations bring legal claims for breaches. But “the necessary support wasn’t found” at a meeting of national ambassadors, said a post on X by the Belgian presidency, which is currently...
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Reports that Germany will abstain on EU green supply chain rules are putting the law’s future in doubt – and causing chaos for the country's ruling coalition. The EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive (CSDDD) was agreed in principle in December, when MEPs and governments struck a political deal. The law requires businesses to check supply chains for carbon emissions or human rights abuses – but business lobbies have warned it could harm competitiveness. Earlier this week Germany’s labour minister signalled his intention to abstain at tomorrow's (9 February) meeting of EU ambassad...
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