Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, announced last week (June 11) that the EU is looking into Amazon e-books business practices on its home turf. According to the Commission, Amazon’s contracts with publishers force them to reveal better deals offered by competitors, which gives the...
In an attempt to reassure the Silicon Valley, the Commissioner in charge of the EU’s digital economy, Andrus Ansip, claimed yesterday in an interview with the The Wall Street Journal that the EU’s single digital market is not about protectionism, but really about opportunities. In the...
PYMNTS reported earlier this week on the European Commission’s alleged plans – uncovered by leaked documents – to accelerate cross-border payments and commerce innovation across the EU in a plan involving a probe into the role of eCommerce sites in cross-border commerce. On Wednesday (May 6),...
As soon as the European Commission officially launched its new and repeatedly leaked plan for a single digital market, U.S. tech giants raised red flags. “Imposing regulator barriers would be a grave mistake for Europe, and would have harmful effects on trans-Atlantic trade and investment,” Dean Garfield,...
December 16, 2015
Long-awaited data protection regulations were officially passed into law by the European Union on Tuesday (Dec. 15). According to The New York Times, the changes are expected to provide citizens with more control over the collection and management of their digital information and will go into effect by early 2017. The law will be issued […]
June 16, 2015
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, announced last week (June 11) that the EU is looking into Amazon e-books business practices on its home turf. According to the Commission, Amazon’s...
May 29, 2015
In an attempt to reassure the Silicon Valley, the Commissioner in charge of the EU’s digital economy, Andrus Ansip, claimed yesterday in an interview with the The Wall Street Journal that...
May 07, 2015
PYMNTS reported earlier this week on the European Commission’s alleged plans – uncovered by leaked documents – to accelerate cross-border payments and commerce innovation across the EU in a plan involving...
