Donald Tusk today takes office as President of the European Council representing the 28 EU Member States. This inauguration completes the EU’s five year leadership change. Mr Tusk’s challenges won’t be easy. The EU is steering towards a lost decade, still struggling with weak economic recovery and high unemployment. Business as usual is not an…
DetailsBrussels – The European Parliament has passed a measure asking the European Commission to consider unbundling search engines from other commercial services. The move is seen as a political one after a lengthy independent investigation of Google by the European Commission did not satisfy the company’s critics. For more than 40 years, the Computer &…
DetailsThe European Parliament filed a draft motion aimed at splitting Google’s search engine from its other commercial services. The motion could come up for a vote this month, though the move is largely seen as a way to put political pressure on the new European Commission to take some sort of action against the company…
DetailsWashington — President Obama announced his administration’s executive action on immigration Thursday evening in a prime- time address. The President seeks to streamline employment-based immigration programs, including making it easier for entrepreneurs to obtain visas and for foreign students studying engineering or technology at US universities to participate in existing training programs after graduation. The…
DetailsCompleting the digital single market to support Europe’s increasingly connected economy will be a top priority for the new Juncker-led Commission. While Commission officials embark upon formulating new policies aimed at invigorating the digital economy, increased attention should be paid to the very practical obstacles blocking a healthy online economy and harming small businesses and…
DetailsThe Senate fell two votes short Tuesday evening in its attempt to bring the USA FREEDOM Act to the floor for debate. The Computer & Communications Industry Association is disappointed to see yet another delay in passing badly needed reforms that are critical to restoring the trust between the government and citizens. The following can be attributed…
DetailsBrussels — Relations between the world’s two biggest trading blocs, the European Union (EU) and the United States, remain strained more than a year after the first revelations by Edward Snowden. In parallel to our industry’s calls for reforms to U.S. surveillance laws, CCIA also welcomes the review of the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor framework. This…
DetailsWashington – The Senate has taken a step towards meaningful surveillance reform in the final weeks of the 113th Congress, after the Senate moved closer to a vote on the USA FREEDOM Act. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Congressman Sensenbrenner R-Wisc. and Senator Leahy D-Vt. earlier in the year, will begin the process of restoring…
DetailsWashington – Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those big companies responded with a threat. AT&T told Wall Street it may suspend its plan to invest $18 billion in broadband deployment…
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