The EU's new new Copyright Directive mandates that any online community, platform or service that has existed for three or more years, or is making 10 million euros a year or more, is responsible for ensuring that no user ever posts anything that infringes copyright, even momentarily, which is impossible.
The head of the Liberal faction in the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, said that Europe needs its own special prosecutor, like the US-based Robert Muller, who is investigating alleged “interference” of Russia in the 2016 Presidential elections.
The provocative proposal was made on Verhofstadt’s Twitter account.
He said that in September, he will pressure the European Parliament to take measures to “clean up” the internet and social networks from alleged “Russian attacks”.
The European Parliament honored Venezuela’s right-wing opposition with its prestigious Sakharov human rights prize during a ceremony in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
National Assembly (AN) President Julio Borges received the award on behalf of the opposition-controlled legislature and the country’s so-called “political prisoners”, to whom the prize was dedicated.
“In the next few months, there should be a presidential election and we ask Europe and the free world to pay full attention,” he said in remarks during the ceremony.
The European Union’s parliament in Strasbourg seems to have found a little backbone.
Though it has no power to originate legislation (it can only rubber stamp decrees of the European Commission), parliament decided to recommend to the commission that visa restrictions be imposed on Americans.
The move is in response to the United States’ failure to grant visa-free travel to citizens of some EU members, including Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Cyprus.
A man sells balloons wearing a Mickey Mouse costume with an US flag on his hat in a tourist area in Madrid, Spain. (AP/Andres Kudacki)
On Thuesday, EU lawmakers voted to force Americans to apply for visas when traveling to Europe in response to Washington refusing to allow all Europeans to travel to the States visa-free.
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right presidential candidate adjuts her hair as she attends a debate in Paris. The European Parliament has voted Thursday March 2, 2017 to lift Le Pen’s immunity from prosecution. (AP/Francois Mori)
PARIS (REPORT) — The European Parliament voted Thursday to lift the immunity from prosecution for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting gruesome images of Islamic State violence, a crime that carries up to three years in prison in France.
Activists stage a demonstration against the so-called CETA trade deal outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Feb.15, 2017. (AP/Jean-Francois Badias)
The EU-Canada trade deal CETA has been approved by the European Parliament by a vote of 408 to 254, with 33 abstentions.
The deal is now set to be voted on by national and regional parliaments across Europe.
Three key scientific studies that would reveal possible risks to human and environmental health from the use of the herbicide chemical glyphosate have been held back in the name of ‘trade secret protection.”
21st Century Wire says…
The military industrial complex will not be happy about this.
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Citing concerns that glyphosate has been proven to be an endocrine disruptor, along with other health and environmental issues, 67 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have written a letter to the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, asking that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Round Up weed killer, NOT be re-approved.
