Unpopular, but factual, opinion: according to the EU treaties, Michel is the person at the other end of Kissinger’s phone line. Von der Leyen has dominated EU foreign policy, but that is not really her role. Which explains most of the “-gates” you have been reading about.

Un cambio importante en las reglas sociales, la tensa negociación con una organización terrorista en fase terminal y un fuerte brote de descontento social como consecuencia de la última crisis económica no han agitado tanto los ánimos en Madrid DF (...) como la cuestión catalana.

BREAKING | This month, Meta has been forcing Instagram & Facebook users in the EU to choose between consenting to the company's data collection practices & paying for an ad-free service. The tech giant's approach is aggressive & misleading & must be stopped #ChooseToLoseWithMeta

Desde principios de mes Meta obliga a los usuarios de Instagram y Facebook en la UE a elegir entre aceptar sus prácticas de recopilación de datos o pagar por un servicio sin publicidad. Este enfoque es agresivo y engañoso, por lo que debe detenerse #ChooseToLoseWithMeta

#ECJ: #GDPR opposes two #personaldata processing practices by credit information agencies schufa #scoring 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

📢Join @rachel_grfn, Fernando Hortal Foronda and me tomorrow for the closing session of our #collectiveredress speaker series, as we discuss how the #representativeactionsdirective intersects with the #dsa, #dma, and other EU legal instruments. Details on how to tune in below 👇

LIVE NOW! 🌍 "Intersection with the Digital Services Package and other EU regulatory instruments" with @rachel_grfn and Fernando Hortal Foronda. No prior registration is needed. Watch the session here: digitalfreedomfund.org/collective-red… Don't miss out! 📷🎯

Jacques Delors has died aged 98. He will go down into history as one of the most impactful EU Commission Presidents. Not only he established the single market - the first in the world - but also fathered the €. Unlike most of his successors, he wasn’t a former PM, but ‘just’

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📢Meta’s pay-or-consent choice these past months is a smokescreen. Behind it lies massive, illegal data processing. 8 consumer groups from the BEUC network are today filing complaints to stop Meta and better protect your data. 📢 #MetaSmokescreen ➡️ beuc.eu/enforcement/me…

2⃣ You can’t consent to something freely if you don’t know what you are consenting to. The choice Meta imposes on Facebook and Instagram users can therefore not lead to freely given and informed consent, another principle of the GDPR.

Good to see the European Commission taking action to enforce the #DSA! Consumers deserve protection and companies like AliExpress need to comply with the law. x.com/EU_Commission/…

#ECJ Order of the Vice-President of the #Court: Online advertising - @Amazon 's request to suspend its obligation to make an advertisement repository publicly available is rejected 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

En las últimas horas, Pedro Sánchez lo dejaba por amenazas de los servicios secretos israelíes, fotos comprometidas en su móvil o un chantaje marroquí. Se ha publicado y dicho… Ojalá la desinformación se tomara cinco o más días de reflexión y descanso.

The proceedings against Meta are quite interesting. They showcase why enforcing the DSA due diligence obligations in an ambitious manner is crucial. I could not avoid remembering the conclusions of a paper on interplay of the DSA and the TTPA. shorturl.at/ezLX2

Fast-growing online marketplace Temu 🛒might be taking Europe by storm, but it is failing to keep consumers safe by breaking EU law 😡 Today we are launching complaints to ask authorities to step in & force Temu to comply! #TamingTemu ➡️beuc.eu/enforcement/ta…

Today, a Request for Information was sent to Amazon asking it to provide more details on the parameters of its recommender systems, options for users to opt out of being profiled for the recommender systems and its advertisement repository: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

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