The European Sovereign Cloud project was born out of an European desire to create a secure, transparent, and reliable platform for data. How was GAIA-X born ? This ambition stems mainly from the effects of a US federal law from the 23 of March in 2018 known as the Cloud…
Data are gold but health data are pure and a precious gold mine. Indeed, we can use them for clinical research. Understanding decease and how the body works is actually easier with health data. Nevertheless, due to the value of these data, some people trying to steal them in the…
In 2018, the European Union established a legislation banning the practice of unjustified geo-blocking. Indeed, this practice was going against the European Commission’s political ambitions to transform the European Union’s digital market from 28 national distinct markets to a single European market. Thus, enabling the free movement of people, services…
Début décembre 2018, le Parlement européen a adopté un rapport proposant de déléguer la censure du Web européen aux GAFA.
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On December 1st 2017, the European Commission released a final report on the first year of functionning of its ODR (online dispute resolution) platform. As a reminder, the directive on consumer ADR (aternative dispute resolution) and the regulation on ODR of 21 May 2013, currently into force, are part…
The Horizon 2020 was launched on 1 January 2014, which is the biggest EU research and innovation programme ever. With a budget of almost €80 billion, for a period of seven years (2014 to 2020), the programme aims at financing interdisciplinary projects in order to answer to the big economic…
This small country in eastern Europe joined the European Union 1 May 2004. It chairs the Council of the European Union since 1 July and this for 6 months. This is an opportunity to take a closer look at this country, notably on its practices in terms of digital.
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