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E-COMMERCE
  • Eurostat: Online shopping in the EU keeps growing
  • Ecommerce Europe: E-commerce in France 2024 – Online sales exceed €175 billion, growing by 9.6% year-on-year
DIGITAL SERVICES ACT
  • EU Commission: New best-practice election toolkit on the Digital Services Act
  • EP Research Service: Fact-checking and content moderation
  • Meta: Joel Kaplan (Chief Global Affairs Officer) at the Munich Security Conference
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • Opening remarks: EVP Mînzatu at the Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on AI and the Labour Market
  • EP Think Tank: Children and generative AI
  • ETSI AI Conference: Standardization shaping the future of AI
  • Internet Governance Project:
    • The Frontier Illusion – Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat
    • So Much for Global Governance of AI…
  • DigWatch: AI’s new Cold War reshaping geopolitical lines
DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE
  • La Quadrature du Net: What is “AI Video Surveillance”?
DIGITAL IDENTITY
  • German VZBV: Consumers must be able to trust digital wallets
HI-TECH INVESTMENTS
  • EU Commission & High Representative: Strong actions to enhance security of submarine cables
ANTI-PIRACY
  • CCIA: Overblocking from anti-piracy measures across the EU raises concerns
DATA GOVERNANCE
  • ETSI: Launch of a Technical Committee on Data Solutions (TC DATA) to support European Data Governance Act
ESPORTS
  • Esports World Cup Foundation: Strategic partnership with Tencent
GERMANY
  • Bitkom: Final report on digital policy of the Traffic Light Coalition
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • EU Action Plan on Cable Security (Joint Communication to EP & Council)
  • Commission Decision: Framework Financial Partnership Agreement with the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre
  • Commission Decision: Moldova’s National Regulatory Authority participation in BEREC
  • Indicative list: Hazardous medicinal products under Directive 2004/37/EC
  • Commission Decision: Financing of Electronic Communications actions & 2025 work programme
  • TRIS Notification 2024/623/FR: Commission Decision on digital travel assistance services
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER

EP Think Tank Papers

  • At a Glance: Orbital debris and satellite destruction (21-02-2025)
  • At a Glance: State aid assessment – Final judgment on Apple (21-02-2025)
  • At a Glance: Children and generative AI (18-02-2025)
  • At a Glance: Fact-checking and content moderation (17-02-2025)
  • At a Glance: Equal treatment directive – Potential EU added value (11-02-2025)
  • At a Glance: Women’s rights – What is at stake? (11-02-2025)
  • Briefings:
    • Planned revision of the EU Return Directive (20-02-2025)
    • Revised Product Liability Directive (19-02-2025)
    • EU-India relations – Time for a new boost? (19-02-2025)
    • Community sponsorship schemes under the new migration and asylum pact (13-02-2025)
    • Russia’s war on Ukraine – Forcibly displaced Ukrainian children (11-02-2025)
    • Displaced Ukrainians – Challenges and integration in the EU (19-02-2025)
    • EU sanctions against Russia – State of play & challenges (11-02-2025)

MEP Questions & EU Commission Answers

  • Elon Musk’s ‘Space on X’ talk with Alice Weidel (P-000108/2025)
  • SLAPP lawsuits & media freedom in Greece (E-002138/2024)
  • Investigation into TikTok under DSA – Report publication before Romanian elections (P-000253/2025)
  • Debanking of patriotic media & activists – The Freilich affair (E-002930/2024)
  • DSA transparency database – Resource allocation (E-002730/2024)
  • Conflicts of interest & political interference by Elon Musk (E-002653/2024)
  • Introduction of a bureaucracy cost index at EU level (E-002204/2024)
  • Journalistic freedom vs. personal rights protection (P-003017/2024)
  • Disinformation via recommender systems under the DSA (E-002826/2024)
  • Reviewing the classification of IP addresses as personal data (E-002546/2024)
  • Driver shortage & CPC certification (E-002658/2024)
  • Penalties for drug-influenced driving (E-003000/2024)
  • Broadcast rights protection for audiovisual works & sports events (E-002981/2024)
  • Google’s influence on edited media content (E-002915/2024)
  • Mobility challenges for persons with disabilities (E-002793/2024)
  • Insurance classification of professional school bus drivers (E-002734/2024)
  • DSA applicability to Telegram & similar platforms (E-002762/2024)
  • Fundamental rights of ethnic & linguistic minorities in partner countries (E-002588/2024)
EP JURI Committee
  • Vote on oral questions: Parenthood Regulation & Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) with Commissioner Dombrovskis
  • Oral Questions: Parenthood Regulation (O-000004/2025 & O-000005/2025)
  • Minutes: Committee on Legal Affairs (13-02-2025)
EP CULT Committee
  • Exchange of views: EVP Mînzatu (Committee on Culture & Education)
  • Structured dialogue: Commissioner Glenn Micallef (Committee on Culture & Education)
  • European Youth Capital 2025: Lviv
  • Committee votes: Culture & Education
  • Minutes: CULT Committee meeting (19-20 February 2025)
  • Draft Opinion: Improving & enforcing working conditions of trainees (Traineeships Directive)
  • Next CULT Committee Meeting: 19-20 February 2025

 

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