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EU names four US territories on money-laundering blacklist
- Economy
- February 13, 2019, 12:37
Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and four overseas US territories have been named on the EU’s blacklist of territories at high risk of money laundering. The Eur(...)

Commission seeks to clamp down on ‘golden passport’ schemes
- Economy
- January 24, 2019, 12:10
The European Commission is seeking to clamp down on “golden passports” and “golden residence” cash-for-visa investor schemes run by EU member states. (...)

Romania's PM seeks truce with critics amid fears over its EU presidency
- Europe
- October 31, 2018, 17:38
Romanian prime minister Viorica Dancila has called for a “truce” between her government and its opponents, in response to fears in Brussels that the c(...)

Brussels targets parties’ misuse of personal voter data
- Business
- August 26, 2018, 17:30
The EU is seeking the power to impose significant fines on European political parties that misuse voters’ personal data to influence elections, as Bru(...)

Airbnb ordered to make prices more transparent
- Retail & Services
- July 16, 2018, 12:46
Online accommodation platform Airbnb has been criticised by the European Commission for a lack of transparency in the presentation of its prices, and (...)

Facebook faces ‘symbolic’ £500,000 fine from UK regulator
- Technology
- July 11, 2018, 11:52
Facebook could be fined a symbolic £500,000 (€565,000) by the UK’s privacy regulator after the social network giant failed to prevent key user data fa(...)

Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to European Parliament to be live streamed
- Technology
- May 21, 2018, 14:01
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to the European Parliament on Tuesday on the Cambridge Analytica scandal will be broadcast live on the(...)

On May 25th GDPR comes into force for Europe’s 500m citizens
- Technology
- May 19, 2018, 07:05
You can thank Brussels if your in-box is soon less clogged than usual with spam. Above all you can thank Jan-Philipp Albrecht, a boyish Green Party M(...)

EU member states urged to regulate online political ads
- Technology
- May 15, 2018, 18:27
EU justice commissioner Vera Jourová has urged national governments to regulate online political advertising to throttle the “dirt” flowing through so(...)

Irish consumers may win right to bring class actions
- Irish News
- April 11, 2018, 16:42
Irish consumers will win the right to bring class actions against companies under new proposals from the European Commission. National consumer autho(...)