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Digital Markets Act: ending unfair practices of big online platforms

November 24, 2021 by European Union Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. The draft law blacklists certain practices of large platforms and enables the Commission to carry out market investigations and sanction non-compliant behaviours. The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee adopted this morning by 42 votes in favour, two against and one abstention its position […]

Digital business is Europe’s best hope to get back to growth

October 17, 2014 by Leo Buonapartis Leave a Comment

Digital market has received a lot of interest lately in Europe. Not only by the market players that have always lobbied more favourable or less regulation in general, but most importantly by the EU leadership. New Commissioner, new priorities Jean Claude Juncker, new President of the European Commission, seems to have ‘bet all his money’ […]

Filed Under: Digital, eGovernment, InfoSociety, Policy, Technology, Telecommunications Tagged With: Andrus Ansip, digital first EU priority, digital market, Estonia, ETNO, Günther Oettinger, Jean-Claude Juncker, Neelie Kroes, Single Market, Telcos

The ever-growing crises that are displacing migrants from their homes

August 9, 2021 By The Sting's Team

This article was written by one of our guest writers, Mr. Aaron Gates-Lincoln, writer for Immigration News. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not The European Sting’s position on the issue. The ever-growing crises that are displacing migrants from their homes are dominating the headlines in the world of immigration. The act […]

A Continental Political Party

July 1, 2021 By The Sting's Team

This article was written by one of our passionate readers, Mr. Tomasso Merlo. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not The European Sting’s position on the issue. A continental political party is needed for European political unification to proceed. A party that represents all the pro-European citizens spread across the continent. […]

The need for a united Europe

June 7, 2021 By The Sting's Team

This article was written by one of our passionate readers, Mr. Tomasso Merlo. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not The European Sting’s position on the issue. The epochal political challenge of the European peoples is their unification and the birth of a common continental democracy. The European dream, however, is […]

Material and human garbage

May 24, 2021 By The Sting's Team

This article was written by one of our passionate readers, Mr. Tomasso Merlo. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not The European Sting’s position on the issue. We in the rich world export plastic waste and import human waste. We are turning the planet into a huge garbage dump. We produce […]

Cyprus’s last chance to solve the Cyprus issue is threatened by its corrupt political elite

May 22, 2021 By The Sting's Team

This article was written by one of our guest writers, Mr. Michalis Christou, one of the youngest candidates running in the upcoming May 30 parliamentary elections on the island of Cyprus and a philosophy graduate. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not The European Sting’s position on the issue. How can the […]

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