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France bans paying for sex
French MPs have voted in favor of a law that makes it illegal to pay for sex, replacing rules that penalized sex workers for soliciting. Clients will have to pay fines of up to €3,750 for buying sexual...
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Inside Günther Oettinger’s chalet getaway
At an exclusive Austrian Alps chalet beloved by European royals, a group of Brussels high rollers and EU tech industry big wigs will gather this week to hit the ski slopes, take in the sauna and talk...
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Commission considers ‘YouTube tax’ on streaming services
The European Commission is considering a levy on Internet platform services, like streaming videos and music, as part of its plans to reform copyright laws and compensate authors and artists, according...
View ArticleEuropean enforcers not sold on ‘privacy shield’
In a stuffy room in a European Commission building near Brussels’ Place Jourdan, the EU’s data cops will meet this week to decide the fate of an agreement to enable companies to move data across the...
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EU data enforcers demand privacy shield fixes
The new U.S.-EU pact to help companies transfer data across the Atlantic may have been signed in February, but the negotiations aren’t yet done, according to European data regulators. The agreement is...
View ArticlePrivacy panel trips up transatlantic data deal
The tech world won’t be getting out of data limbo anytime soon. Europe’s privacy watchdogs pushed back against a new EU-U.S. deal on data protection on Wednesday, injecting further uncertainty into how...
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Copyright fight club
The biggest tech fight on the Continent this year doesn’t involve Google or Uber, though those are big. Nor is it the raging Transatlantic policy debates over net neutrality or the privacy shield so...
View ArticleDer Anruf, der Safe Harbor rettete
Der Anruf kam mitten in der Nacht am ersten Dienstag im Februar. Am Apparat: John Kerry, der Außenminister der USA und Frans Timmermans, der erste Vizepräsident der Europäischen Kommission. Die...
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Chernobyl poisoned my childhood
On a warm spring evening on the last day of April 1986, my grandmother, a doctor, rushed to my parents’ house after work. “Don’t take Zoya outside and close the windows,” she told my mother. “Something...
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Leaked TTIP documents reveal ‘irreconcilable’ differences
U.S. negotiators on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership want to keep details of the talks secret and may be less interested in the deal than their EU counterparts, according to leaked...
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German finance minister slams VW executive bonuses
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has slammed a decision by Volkswagen bosses to award themselves bonuses despite overseeing an emissions-cheating scandal. “I cannot understand how you can...
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Interior ministry wanted to ‘erase rape’ from Cologne police report
The interior ministry in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia ordered the word “rape” to be erased from a police report after the Cologne sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve, according to a chief...
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Poland’s PiS abolishes anti-racism body
Poland’s right-wing government on Wednesday scrapped a state council tasked with combating racism despite an increase in hate crime in the country, according to media reports. “The council proved to be...
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Most EU workers would fail UK visa requirements after Brexit
Most EU citizens working in the U.K. wouldn’t meet work visa requirements to stay in the country if it quit the European Union, according to research published in the Financial Times. The report...
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German hairdresser uses Hitler posters to fight far right
A German hairdresser who used an image of Hitler to advertise her salon and raise money for a charity that rehabilitates right-wing extremists is in hot water with local prosecutors, according to local...
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Greece grinds to a halt in three-day anti-austerity strike
Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job Friday for a three-day general strike to protest planned austerity measures, local media reported. Unions called the strike on Thursday, arguing laws...
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Europol to target potential terrorists in refugee camps in Greece, Italy
The EU’s law enforcement agency will deploy specially trained experts to refugee hot spots including Greece and Italy to help identify potential terrorists disguised as refugees, according to a...
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Donald Trump flags Muslim ban ‘exception’ for London Mayor Sadiq Khan
London’s new mayor could be exempt from Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from traveling to the U.S., Trump told the New York Times Monday. The presumptive U.S. Republican presidential...
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Gordon Brown: UK at risk from ‘Russian aggression’ in divided Europe
The U.K. must stay in the EU to deal with a “perfect storm” of security, migration and economic threats, Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister, argued in an opinion piece published in The...
View ArticleLatvia, Lithuania and Poland worst countries to be gay in EU
Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are the three worst countries to be gay in the EU, while Malta, Belgium and the U.K. are the best, according to a report released by equal rights organization ILGA-Europe....
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