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Make The Right Choice!
As I write, finally, cautiously, but steadily, things are beginning to return to a version of normal across Europe. For many of us, it’s like we are waking from a dream, or, maybe more accurately, some kind of nightmare. Abraham...Promoted content
Reinforcing Digital Sovereignty In Post-Covid Era: Case Study Of Security Inspection Equipment
Digital sovereignty applies to a broad range of economic sectors impacted by digitalisation and poses many questions. Perhaps the most important one is the national security dimension: how to ensure the safe treatment of security-related data in a virtually borderless world?Promoted content
Pandemic puts telemedicine and data access in the spotlight
What a dramatic difference a few months can make. At the beginning of 2020, it was hard to imagine that a worldwide health and economic crisis would develop so rapidly and cause a dramatic global shock.
EU-UK cross-border data flows: New digital walls for the economy?
Data needs to continue to flow between the UK and the EU. The EU should limit safeguards to only those needed to protect personal data, writes Andrea Giuricin.
Digital tax could hinder European digitalisation when we need it most
The European Commission wants to create a Europe fit for the digital age. Its digital tax proposal goes in the opposite direction, argues Jörgen Warborn.
Europe’s Experience Readiness Level – Navigating IoT and Arts in a New Digital World
The EU must deploy large scale projects quickly, or we’ll miss the next tech wave carrying us into the ‘New Digital Era’, writes Eva Kaili.
Artificial Intelligence: The time for ethics is over
Organising ethical debates has long been an efficient way for industry to delay and avoid hard regulation. Europe now needs strong, enforceable rights for its citizens, writes Green MEP Alexandra Geese.
The new ERA must do more for gender equality
As we slowly emerge from the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, one thing is clear – it has brought to the front various aspects of gender equality issues in Research and Innovation (R&I), writes Marcela Linkova.
Digital tax: Stage set for EU leadership after Trump’s OECD withdrawal
Amazon does not need another massive handout, but that is what the Trump administration gave the US behemoth by withdrawing from international digital tax negotiations at the OECD. The timing could not be worse, write Christy Hoffman and Oliver Roethig.
US Corporations are talking about bans for AI. Will the EU?
The conversation on banning certain uses of artificial intelligence (AI) is back on the legislative agenda. The European Commission's public consultation closed recently, leaving the EU to grapple with what the public think about AI regulation, write Nani Jansen Reventlow and Sarah Chander.
Time to aim high: tackling disinformation during the pandemic
The EU needs a course correction in its approach to disinformation and fake news in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, writes Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck.Promoted content
Europe Needs Transparency, Creativity, and Empowerment for the Digital Future
Policy makers need lodestar themes to ground and inter-relate their enactments. Transparency, creativity, and empowerment should form that core. For a true digital transformation, the focus also must include digital physical infrastructure and uncensored internet access. But those are stories for another day.Special ReportPromoted content
How a truly digital approach can accelerate the post-Covid economic recovery
When I presented our annual results last month, I spoke about the speed of our business continuity planning amid the Covid pandemic. This allowed us to focus on a comprehensive 5-point plan to support our customers and society in this...Special ReportPromoted content
We need to reinvent, not rebuild Europe’s industrial base after COVID-19
The economic situation is bleak. The IMF predicts a 3% fall in global GDP in 2020 because of COVID-19. Europe’s largest economy, Germany, officially entered into recession earlier this week and according to McKinsey, 60 million jobs are at risk...Promoted content
Better Treatments & Diagnostics
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, we have become witness to the devastating, all-encompassing impact of infectious disease. First and foremost, the pandemic remains an ongoing public health emergency with over three million confirmed cases and hundreds of thousands of human lives lost. But COVID-19 has also emerged as an economic, social, and human rights crisis.
EU should launch a specialist team to investigate Chinese disinformation
The Chinese government has flooded the European information space with disinformation, in an effort to control the narrative around the pandemic and divert the blame. This poisonous environment created by Chinese info-war operations calls for resolute answers, write Jakub Janda and Nathalie Vogel.Special ReportPromoted content
The tech sector needs to take the lead on gender equality
Europe still has a gender problem in business. Data from the European Institute for Gender Equality suggests that amongst Europe’s largest listed companies, only 8% are led by female CEOs. Less than a fifth of executives are women, and only...
Data sharing and data protection: the essential third way for Europe.
Former MEP Jean-Marie Cavada argues for 'a right to share, a duty to protect' approach to data sharing and privacy amid the current public health crisis.
Press Freedom and Europe: Wolves, vultures, trolls… plus knights and journalists
The media and the EU face similar dangers. Christophe Leclercq, who established Fondation EURACTIV and the EURACTIV media network, creatively illustrates how characters could cooperate to avoid the worst.
Blind faith in technology diverts EU efforts to fight terrorism
If there is one thing the coronavirus crisis proved to us is that automated tools used by big social media companies completely fail to provide a suitable online space for the exchange of vital health-related information, write Chloé Berthélémy and Diego Naranjo of European Digital Rights (EDRi).
Building transnational immunity to the COVID-19 infodemic
The European Union is a major target of disinformation campaigns about COVID-19, both by Russia and domestic nationalist actors. What the bloc needs is a cross-national media engagement, a truly transnational European public sphere to build resilience against disinformation on EU affairs, writes Nad’a Kovalcikova.Promoted content
False commentary and blinkered perspectives hampering TCO progress
The proposal on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online is stalled around two major sticking points but now is not the time to delay.
EU’s digital vision in the era of dataism
The talk of the digital future is immensely in vogue. However, the future is already here. Nothing reveals and increases our reliance on virtual connection for work, education, business, and social life more than the current pandemic, writes Miroslava Sawiris....