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EU Investigates Amazon E-Books Business
June 12, 2015
As it pursues investigations into the operations of several US-based technology companies in Europe, the European Commission has announced that it has launched an investigation over whether tech giant Amazon used its dominant position in e-books to favor its own products over others.
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Italian Minister Seeks Eurozone Common Budget
June 11, 2015
In The Guardian, Italian Foreign Minister Pier Carlo Padoan writes that eurozone leaders should push an "ambitious" agenda that includes a common budget and a joint unemployment insurance plan.
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EU Officials Call for German Cooperation in Tax Probe
June 10, 2015
EurActiv reports that officials from the European Commission and a Member of the European Parliament are calling for full cooperation of the German Government with an EU-wide investigation of whether member states have granted special tax privileges to multinational corporations.
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Hammond: UK Seeks "Democratic" EU in Negotiations
June 10, 2015
Acknowledging the transfer of national sovereignty to the EU from its member states, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond writes in The Irish Times that the UK's negotiated EU reforms must work toward a more democratic bloc with decisions taken closer to the citizens and more powers at the national level.
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CoE Warns ICANN to Respect Human Rights Agenda
June 10, 2015
The Council of Europe's ("CoE") Committee of Ministers has called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), a nonprofit that manages the infrastructure of the internet, to respect international human rights law in assigning domain names and retaining data of domain name holders.
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