Politique

Digital regulation no longer pits Brussels against platforms, but also pits directorates-general against each other. With TikTok, DG Connect is using the DSA to intervene in service design.…

As the European Union moves toward widespread bans and age verification on social media, the question is not whether these practices pose problems, but whether the available evidence…

Over the past 20 years, many European services have seen their lead eroded by international platforms, mainly American, which are better equipped to deploy network effects, capital, and…

The DSA did not go far enough. With the future Digital Fairness Act, the Commission is exploring a large-scale age verification system, possibly via the digital identity wallet,…

The European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Liberties Committees recommend that the EU accede to the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI, which is considered compatible with…

The « better law-making » report adopted yesterday by the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee seems less like a turning point than an attempt at narrative de-escalation. The…

The revision of the Cybersecurity Act proposed by the Commission shifts cybersecurity towards a logic of systemic risk management and control of « high-risk » cloud providers, triggering…

Unable to conceive of the digital world as a normal arena for political debate, European institutions treat it as a pathology that needs to be regulated. From the…

The Digital Networks Act is coming before Parliament and the Council, which is already burdened with disputes. Behind the stated goal of simplification, the text focuses on two…

The European Commission wanted to move quickly to adjust the AI Act. The European Parliament, however, has chosen to take its time. The LIBE and IMCO committees have…

AWS today formalized its European sovereign cloud announced at the end of 2025, providing an operational response to European injunctions on digital sovereignty. A concept of sovereignty redefined…

In the European Parliament, the diagnosis is unanimous: content piracy, particularly live streaming, thrives on loopholes in the current framework and fuels a structured criminal economy. Rights holders…

Many artists and festivals are calling on the European Commission to use its future Digital Fairness Act, currently in preparation, to adopt concrete measures against the illegal resale…

The European Commission has been very active in defending the applicability of Article 4 of the Copyright Directive to generative AI, and in inviting rights holders to use…

Having failed to build champions, invest heavily in infrastructure, or anticipate technological disruptions, Europe has made digital sovereignty its watchword. Behind the proliferation of standards, summits, and so-called…

By exempting itself from Pillar II of the OECD agreement, Washington is not merely adjusting a technical device: it is gutting the multilateral tax compromise painstakingly built up…

To close the year, ElectronLibre publishes without retouch a demonstration of the capabilities of its AI tool – EL Compagnon – to synthesize and anticipate the major legislative,…

French authors, publishers, producers and collecting societies are showing their support for the proposed law aimed at establishing a presumption of exploitation of cultural content by AI systems.…

Recovered growth, agentic AI in focus, digital sovereignty in ambush: the 2026 outlook for the digital sector is brightening. But for Numeum, this economic quiver can only be…

In a tense context marked by a parliamentary inquiry, France Télévisions has voted for a balanced 2026 budget based on 140 million euros in savings to compensate for…

Supported financially and politically by the European Union since 2020, cited in the Media Freedom Act and deployed via several European and national programs, the Journalism Trust Initiative…

At a stormy hearing, Delphine Ernotte, combative but at times evasive, defended her balance sheet in the face of rapporteur Charles Alloncle’s accusations about France Télévisions’ financial situation,…

The first decision to apply the Digital Services Act (DSA) left out the most political aspect of the dossier: content moderation. A setback largely explained by the unfortunate…

Information is not an industrial product. Pluralism cannot be certified. And a private benchmark, which has absolutely nothing to do with an ISO standard, should never be used…

One year after the gradual entry into force of the Media Freedom Act, Europe is above all showing its inertia. From study to hearing, the observation is the…

While Emmanuel Macron is talking about the subject, the European Commission is quietly building a « hybrid ecosystem » – technical standards (C2PA), editorial guidelines (JTI), fact-checking networks…

In the wake of the failed dialogue between rights holders and AI developers, three senators are preparing an explosive proposal: introducing a presumption that copyrighted works were used…

By adopting the Convention on the co-production of series, the Council of Europe has endorsed an ambitious definition of independent production, against the will of the European Commission.…

The European Parliament has voted by a large majority in favor of a resolution calling for a massive tightening of online protection for minors: a harmonized minimum age…

This coming Thursday, an exceptional parliamentary commission will grill the heads and anchors of public broadcasting, revealing an institutional, financial and editorial tug-of-war between France Télévisions and the…