The French competition authority has fined the US Internet company Google half a billion euros (CZK 12.8 billion) for failing to reach an agreement with news publishers. Google has faced accusations by French publishers APIG, SEPM, and the AFP news agency for not dealing with them in good faith about rewards for receiving their content. In April […]
The European Commission (EC) will postpone the plan to introduce a digital tax as an additional source of revenue. This was stated by a spokesperson at a press conference in Brussels today. The Commission originally wanted to present the proposal this month. The announcement came after Sunday’s review of the EU’s plan to tax large Internet companies, […]
The Slovak Constitutional Court has banned the holding of a referendum on calling early elections, the announcement of which was requested by a petition of over 585,000 Slovaks. It follows from today’s court verdict. At the instigation of President Zuzana Čaputová, the constitutional judges considered the referendum and concluded that it was not in accordance with the […]
The economic mood in the European Union reached its best level in 21 years in June. Its index rose by three points to 117 points. The European Commission announced it today. According to the commission, the economic mood index in the Czech Republic rose to 106.1 points from 99.4 points in May. The growth in the EU economic […]
The member states of the European Union today formally approved the so-called climate law, which sets binding rules for achieving the EU’s common emission targets. A key standard of the EU’s environmental strategy sets out how the Union should achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Thus, not to produce any greenhouse gas emissions, or to balance them, for […]
Emergency workers and residents combed through wreckage in southern Czech Republic on Friday after a tornado ripped roofs off buildings and sent cars flying through the air, killing at least five people and injuring hundreds. The tornado, which hit towns and villages around Hodonin along the Slovak and Austrian borders on Thursday evening, may have […]
The European Commission has pledged to take action against a Hungarian law bans portraying homosexuality and gender transitioning in content for minors. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and a member of his cabinet, Justice Minister Judit Varg, rejected the criticism. “The Hungarian bill is a shame,” von der Leyen von der Leyen said Wednesday morning […]
YouTube and other internet platforms are not normally responsible for copyright infringement on videos and other files shared by users. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled today. However, if social network operators knowingly contribute to the dissemination of protected works, they could also violate the law, the highest body of EU justice […]
The coronavirus variant delta is slowly but surely settling in Europe, and with it concerns about the development of the epidemic situation in the summer months. According to an analysis by the Financial Times (FT), the “Indian” mutation, in addition to Britain, already dominates in Russia and Portugal and is spreading rapidly in Germany and […]