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EU: No common protection scheme for ID card data
News European Union members lack a co-ordinated strategy on how to protect citizen data linked to ID cards, according to an EU agency. Out of the 11 countries in the EU that have eIDs, only six of them had... [06 Feb 2009]
EU donates €660,000 to open source research
News Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, FLOSSWorld co-ordinator at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), told silicon.com: "What is unusual is that the EU doesn't usually fund international projects. [26 May 2005]
EU to review charges of anti-competitiveness in mobile industry
News EU telecoms commissioner, Erkki Liikanen, today sought to reassure mobile operators over concerns that they are to be prevented from making profits from interconnection charges. This comes in the light of complaints from... [26 Nov 1999]
EU calls on governments to promote IT
News The EU has released a report on the cultivation of job opportunities in the European information society. The spokesman added that the EU was asking its members to draft IS strategies to be presented at... [25 Nov 1998]
EU reveals phone and email snooping plans
News According to the EU, there will be a "limited invasion of privacy" and "a limited impact on the competitiveness of the electronic communications industry", as telecoms companies across Europe will have to capture and... [01 Aug 2005]
5 years ago: EU to investigate Windows 2000
News Mario Monti, EU competition commissioner, said in a statement: "I have given the green light to an investigation into certain aspects of Microsoft's new operating system marketed under the name Windows 2000. [09 Feb 2005]
EU reaches air data privacy agreement with US
News A long-running spat between the US and Europe over privacy rights for transatlantic airline passengers has finally been concluded, with the EU opting to accept American demands. American authorities were adamant they... [18 Dec 2003]
EU backs €2.7bn 'invisible computing' research
News A fifth of the value of each car produced in the EU is due to embedded electronics and that is expected to rise to around 40 per cent by 2015, creating 600,000 new jobs in the EU automotive sector alone,... [07 Mar 2006]
EU environmental laws to hit smaller PC makers hardest
News Recently, the European Union (EU) approved two directives aimed at managing electrical and electronic waste in Europe: EU governments have not approved the law, which is slated for phasing-in by 2005. [08 Jul 2002]
EU roaming price-caps to hike costs for visitors?
News Visitors to Europe may find they have to pay increased roaming charges as a result of price caps being imposed on calls within the EU. The reforms have been led by Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for... [17 Apr 2007]
Calling 'Mister Cyber Security': EU needs super cyber cop
News Speaking on Monday in her weekly video address, Reding claimed that the 27 EU member states had been "quite negligent" in terms of co-ordinating cyber security strategy across the continent. Reding said: "Although the... [28 Apr 2009]
BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash
News This hinders the full use of IT applications to improve supply-chain management and re-engineer business processes on a pan-EU basis, often resulting in only partial implementation. A statement from BT said: "As... [08 Apr 2008]
EU trying to regulate web "by the back door"
News But in a joint statement the BSG and Intellect described the proposed regulation as "totally unworkable and an attempt by the EU to regulate the internet via the back door". BSG chairman Philip Graf said in a statement:... [20 Sep 2005]
EU demands biometrics by 2005
News Facial biometric data is set to be included on visas and residency permits for non-EU foreign nationals as part of two new proposals from the European Commission to the European Council and Parliament. [03 Oct 2003]
EU digital roadmap: 3G, IT investment, broadband get thumbs up
News The second priority is to ensure that all the member states correctly apply the EU laws on telecoms. In short, it doesn't want to let states like France - who have yet to fully implement EU law on... [06 Feb 2004]
