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News in your inbox Channels Editorial | what does this mean? This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Davos 2021: Key leader takeaways and what they mean for fintech and the environment 2 Finextra attended a very different, digital Davos this year which centred on ‘The Great Reset’. Covering global insights into the impact that fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restorin...

EU’s Digital Decade - Digital Sovereignty, Non-discrimination, and Democracy in the Digital Age The overarching purpose of this blog is to suggest potential ways of how the fundamental values dimension of the Digital Decade could be achieved. Published: By Alexandru Circiumaru, Research Assistant in the EUPlant Project In her first State of the Union Address, the president of the European Commission (‘the Commission’), Ursula von der Leyen, expressed her clear intention to turn the next...

  On January 9, 2007, in the shadow of the CES, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. You know that it was an extraordinary and flawless demo from the outside, but what you dont remember is everything else that was launched — nor how part of the keynote did go wrong. Context is everything. On Sunday, January 7, 2007, Bill Gates gave the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Hammering home Microsofts buzz phrase Digital Decade, he talked about how great hardware wasnt enou...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 16 December 2020, the European Commission launched the EU’s new Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade, seeking to bolster Europe’s cyber resilience and step up the EU’s leadership in cybersecurity regulation. The announcement could not have come at a better time, just days after a cyberattack against the European Medicines Agency exposed sensitive information on two Covid-19 vaccines and at a moment when the SolarWind...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 16 December 2020, the European Commission launched the EU’s new Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade, seeking to bolster Europe’s cyber resilience and step up the EU’s leadership in cybersecurity regulation. The announcement could not have come at a better time, just days after a cyberattack against the European Medicines Agency exposed sensitive information on two Covid-19 vaccines and at a moment when the SolarWind...

On Thursday, the EP President signed a common list of key legislative proposals for 2021, after the Council and Commission Presidents had done so earlier this week. For the first time, the three Presidents also established, in joint conclusions, common priorities for the remainder of the legislative term. The resurgence of the coronavirus shows the “overwhelming need” for the European Union to sustain its efforts in overcoming the crisis. It is also time to implement the strategic prioritie...

On Thursday, the EP President signed a common list of key legislative proposals for 2021, after the Council and Commission Presidents had done so earlier this week. For the first time, the three Presidents also established, in joint conclusions, common priorities for the remainder of the legislative term. The resurgence of the coronavirus shows the “overwhelming need” for the European Union to sustain its efforts in overcoming the crisis. It is also time to implement the strategic prioritie...

MEP Melbarde urges government to allocate funding for media from Recovery and Resilience Facility 2020-12-15 LETA/TBT Staff RIGA - The government should allocate financing from the European Unions Recovery and Resilience Facility also to the media, European Parliament member Dace Melbarde (National Alliance), who is a vide chair of the EU Parliaments Culture and Education Committee, told LETA.  The MEP noted that at the beginning of December, the European Commission adopted two important act...

EU proposes major changes to bar unfair practices by web gatekeepers By (0) "The two proposals serve one purpose: to make sure that we, as users, have access to a wide choice of safe products and services online," one advocate said of the proposed rules. File Photo by Patrick Seeger/EPA-EFE Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The European Union proposed new rules Tuesday how companies conduct their digital businesses that could force tech giants to police content more aggressively, limit takeovers and face stif...