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  As my political awareness has been increasing I have realised how important it is to have independent experts. Whenever you go deep into a controversial, political issue, at one more or less quick moment, often the crucial  question that comes to your mind is:  do we have independent experts we can rely on to tell [...]

  For the liberals of the European Parliament, ”the play is over”   Today the president of the ALDE group (liberals) within the European Parliament announced they will vote against ACTA.  Because ACTA does not provide a suitable balance between the protection of IPR and Fundamental Rights, the ALDE, ”champion of fundamental rights and freedom” [...]

 EU Data retention directive in Germany  Germany tries to find a compromise on its implementation of the EU data retention directive but risks to be sanctioned by the European Commission.  The liberal German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger suggests a ”quick freeze” of data under court statement, before considering longer retention and transmission to investigators, instead of [...]

 At the end of last month the French Parliament passed a new law enabling the digitalisation and commercial exploitation by a mandatory collective management society of out-of-commerce, ‘unavailable’ books, edited before 2001 but not sold anymore,  by a sort of a ‘default setting’. The authors have 6 months to oppose the process if they whish [...]

   Germany: 1 MBite/s Broadband almost everywhere  99.1 % of German households benefit a basic 1 MBite/s broadband coverage, according to a report from the standardisation body TüV and made public today by the Minister of Economy. It still slightly misses the 100% target that should have been reached by the end of 2010. Most of [...]