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September 28, 2017
Guest post by Bill Wirtz, Policy Analyst for the Consumer Choice Center A ‘digital tax’ is just another burden on consumers In a recent move by four EU member states, the European Union has brought up the issue of digital taxation, by suggesting that online business services should be taxed on turnover, not on… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
August 25, 2017
After years of almost unimpeded rise, wood’s reputation is coming under fire, as increasing numbers of experts are questioning the overall carbon footprint of wood and timber. In February of 2017, the Times published an article about the Drax power plant, in North Yorkshire, and its financial modus operandi. “Britain is more reliant on biomass,… » read more
Posted by Ethics, compliance and consumer goods
Pressuring journalists not to speak ill of those in power has become commonplace in the Visegrad countries. While the governments take over or sue newspapers and TV stations, the opposition is reluctant to discuss the issue on the international stage and the EU lacks the tools to intervene. The situation of the media in V4… » read more
Posted by Mam Prawo Wiedziec
July 19, 2017
Guest post by Jakob Kucharczyk, Director of Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Europe It’s not entirely clear who first coined the term “data is the new oil”. But as people scrambled to explain data as the ‘new something’ – the new currency, the new coal, the new gold, and even the new bacon… » read more
Guest blog post by John J. Martin, Global Transparency Fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP). John earned his BA in International Relations from New York University. A century after the words were first uttered by Winston Churchill, ‘business as usual’ does not appear to be on the agenda of British Prime Minister Theresa… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
July 6, 2017
A robot is an automated machine made up of electronic and mechanical parts; the electronic side is operated by software programmed to perform a specific task. The software may include a number of alternative routes which, in all circumstances, are pre-defined. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a complex software system whose purpose is that to… » read more
Posted by Wishing on Europe
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blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Regional Policy |
by Sandra Cabrera Alvarado Growing rise in Euroscepticism among its citizens, threaten by rising tides of economic instability, troubling nationalism, security concerns and political uncertainty both within the region and internationally; the European Union (EU) finds itself at the crossroads. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Rome treaty, EU institutions must resolve to… » read more
Posted by RSIEAblog
June 22, 2017
One year ago people all over the world were still trying to understand the political earthquake of the Brexit-Votum and a few months later Donald Trump was elected as US president. At that time, the journalists Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus published an article in the Swish magazine “Das Magazin”, which immediately went viral in… » read more
Following on our previous article from December 16th, 2016. We now discuss the use of a social sentiment data for investment and training. The strategies and algorithms we describe here are simplified and are not intended for live trading but just for demonstration purposes. A live trading algorithm requires many more rules and functions to… » read more
June 6, 2017
Investors daily have received news and opinions about different stocks or firms through specialised platforms. These one convey information, which leads different investors to make decisions. These decisions impact the market, which aggregates the information that investors receive and reflects it via the price of the firms or stocks. Given an algorithm for classifying text… » read more
May 23, 2017
The recent global ransomware attack ones more showed the world how dependent we are on digital infrastructure and how vulnerable this infrastructure is to the outside world. Anywhere in the world viruses, malware, etc. can be developed from a computer and start a chain reaction. Good reason to protect data from getting blocked, stolen or… » read more
Posted by Antonius Voluptarius
May 17, 2017
In my working life in IT, I have encountered a number of organisations that wanted to move from a working IT system to a different one, in the belief that it would be better and cheaper. I’ll be describing a recent example in this piece. Although there is not on the surface any obvious connection… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
May 11, 2017
Guest blog post by Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia.eu So I woke up this morning and it was the year 2025. All of the DSM policies had been implemented. (Don’t ask about the US president!) I thought back on last night’s football game, with a dramatic late equaliser Viljandi Tulevik managed to tie in the away… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
At “regulations” level Starting from the principle that “all is communication”, 500 pages of regulations are the first difficulty to convey the “structural” message. Language and titles are also important, above of all when working with different language and cultural contexts. Ex. Why do we call it “European fund for Maritime and Fisheries Affairs” instead… » read more
Posted by Atlantic Arc Cities
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blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Regional Policy, Urban Development |
Guest blog post by Chris Wiersma, academic fellow in Media Law & Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic, Political Communication and Science and Technology Studies scholar. On 22 March, a communication has been issued by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECtHR) about 49 cases against Russia. The country’s Foreign Agent Act is now under scrutiny by… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, Freedom of Speech, InfoSociety |
