Macron’s popularity jumps as Yellow Jacket measures kick in
He’s not toast quite yet. French President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity score jumped 5 percentage points in January as measures taken to soothe the Yellow Jackets’ anger started to take effect,...
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Marine Le Pen unveils far-right candidates for European election
Fresh faces, trusted lieutenants and defectors from France’s mainstream conservative party — Marine Le Pen’s team of candidates is ready to go for the European election. The leader of the French...
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Google fine launches new era in privacy enforcement
Eight months after Europe imposed sweeping new privacy rules, France has opened a new chapter in data protection — one of sanctions, fines and tough enforcement. Not only has France’s CNIL data...
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Why the Yellow Jacket movement is a gift to Macron
The Yellow Jackets were supposed to have killed off Emmanuel Macron, but they could end up making him stronger. It didn’t seem that way in December. A day after violent protests in Paris, the French...
View ArticleItaly enters recession as eurozone growth flatlines
Italy has become Europe’s first major economy to enter a recession in five years after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The Italian economy contracted by 0.2 percent in the last quarter of...
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Yellow Jackets ‘fake news’ shared millions of times on Facebook
France’s Yellow Jackets protest movement led to an explosion of false or misleading news items circulating on Facebook, with posts shared some 4 million times over a five-month period, according to a...
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How European ideas motivated Christchurch killer
Europe can’t turn a blind eye to the Christchurch killings. Even though the attack happened on the other side of the world, the man who carried it out declared that he started his planning after a trip...
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When Ireland did Facebook’s work on e-privacy
Facebook has a friend in Ireland — especially when it comes to European privacy rules. In diplomatic meetings in Brussels late last year, Irish representatives used arguments similar to talking points...
View ArticleButton-pushing errors affected copyright reform vote, record shows
The European Parliament’s vote on a controversial reform of copyright rules may have gone differently if several lawmakers had not pressed a wrong button when deciding how the vote should proceed,...
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China’s EU envoy to Europe: Plot your own path, not Washington’s
Hey, Europe: Don’t let Washington ruin our good thing. That was the message from China’s top representative to the European Union, who spoke to POLITICO in the run-up to a Beijing-EU summit Tuesday,...
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Macron adviser tipped as next ambassador to US
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic adviser, Philippe Etienne, is expected to take over as France’s ambassador to the United States as part of a reshuffle of top French diplomatic posts. The Cabinet...
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The Notre Dame wildfire that can’t be put out
The fire at Notre Dame has been out for days. But a secondary blaze of conspiracy theories, apocalyptic visions and political fervor is harder to extinguish, and is set to widen France’s cultural...
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ast May, Europe imposed new data privacy guidelines that carry the hopes of hundreds of millions of people around the world — including in the United States — to rein in abuses by big tech companies....
View ArticleHow Big Tech’s ties to Ireland threaten data privacy around the world
Nearly a year after landmark EU regulation, chief enforcer has yet to take a single action against major firms like Facebook and Google.
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Emmanuel Macron’s plan to fix Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
PARIS — Start treating them like banks. That’s the main thrust of a report commissioned by the French government, which argues that big social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube need to...
View ArticleFacebook changes livestream rules after Christchurch attack
Facebook said Wednesday it would impose new restrictions on use of its livestream tool following an attack on mosques in New Zealand that killed 51 Muslim worshippers and was broadcast live on the...
View ArticleOn GDPR anniversary, French privacy watchdog says penalties are looming
PARIS — Europe’s privacy rules are about to get very real. According to the head of France’s data protection authority, the period of relative tolerance following the introduction of the General Data...
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Europe eyes stricter rules on facial recognition
Europe’s privacy watchdogs are looking to tighten restrictions on the use of facial recognition in a shift that could limit how governments and large companies use the technology. Police and security...
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Europe looks beyond fining Big Tech — to changing its business model
Forget about hitting Big Tech with fines. Europe’s new thinking is that it may be more effective to force Silicon Valley companies to change their behavior than to keep fining them, according to top...
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US pressures France, UK on tech tax proposals ahead of G7
Transatlantic tension flared Friday as Washington took aim at proposals from Paris and London to start taxing the revenue of digital giants, in a spat set to overshadow a meeting of G7 finance...
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