Democracy
EU infringement procedures: July 2020 update
Wednesday 22 July 2020 |
Daniele De Bernardin | Openpolis
InfringEye, EDJNet’s tool for exploring current litigations between the European Commission and EU member states, has been updated to include the latest data. We offer an overview of the last ten months, and the ability to download datasets for each member state.
Big Tech’s aggressive EU lobbying has caused a power shift
Tuesday 20 October 2020 |
Andreas Vou | VoxEurop
The drastic increase of lobbying expenditure by Big Tech companies is denting Europe’s traditionally strict privacy laws and shifting more power into the hands of corporations. And the COVID-19 is playing in the latter's hand.
Diesel engines emissions exceed by far European limits
in depth
Monday 18 June 2018 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
A new independent report reveals how harmful emissions from diesel engines have yet to fall, despite increasingly strict European regulations, and promises from manufacturers to follow the rules.
753 people have died in terrorist attacks in the EU since 2000
Monday 09 December 2019 |
Laszlo Arato Szémann Tamás
| EUrologus
1868. This is the total number of terrorism victims during the last nineteen years, who have either lost their lives in attacks in the European Union, or as European citizens outside the EU's territory. The EU has adopted several directives to combat terrorist acts, but certain member states have yet to transpose them into national law.
Visegrad 4 and the rule of law: Why always me?
in depth
Tuesday 05 November 2019 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci | VoxEurop
The World Bank’s worldwide governance indicators provide useful data about the evolution of the perceptions within EU countries as to how much agents abide by the rule of law. Based on this data source, Southern European countries appear more problematic than Visegrad ones.
The geography of EU dissatisfaction
Friday 24 May 2019 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
A research team analyzed with extraordinary thoroughness who voted against deepening integration in the European Union and why. The results of more than 63,000 polling stations were examined by looking at the latest national election results and data.
European journalists face growing dangers
Wednesday 22 April 2020 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci Gian-Paolo Accardo
| VoxEurop
The latest Press Freedom Index (2020 edition) released by Reporters Without Borders highlights once again the risks journalists face worldwide. Coronavirus is only the latest threat to the profession.
COVID-19 has served as the pretext for widespread surveillance
Wednesday 29 July 2020 |
Andreas Vou | VoxEurop
Mass data collection, geo-location tracking and facial recognition have become normalised in the climate of widespread fear of contagion. Yet these threats to privacy, liberty and democracy will only deepen with the imposition of contact tracing apps.
Everything you ever wanted to know about EU infringement procedures
in depth
Thursday 24 October 2019 |
Daniele De Bernardin | Openpolis
InfringEye is a data-driven tool developed by EDJNet, making it easier for journalists and citizens to understand the EU's infringement mechanisms, and to monitor past and ongoing procedures. Here are some of the main findings.
Not just apps: privacy, personal data and COVID-19 in the western Balkans
Monday 18 May 2020 |
Federico Caruso | OBC Transeuropa
The measures adopted by some Balkan countries to contain the pandemic have raised perplexity in associations and researchers who deal with privacy and digital rights. Emergency actions, derogating from the national rules of law, could translate into mass surveillance tools.
