EU welcomes autonomy plan for Internet governance
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The European Commission welcomed on   Monday U.S. government moves to make the company that manages   Internet domain names independent by 2009, but said it would   monitor the process carefully.
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European editorials on Friday had a lot to say about the new European Commission which has now been approved by the EU parliament.
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EU plans to make it easier for European patients to seek healthcare within any member state
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Eyeing the agreement between the European Union and U.S. to share air-passenger data, the leader of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee pledged Tuesday to ensure that the deal was respectful of citizens' civil liberties.
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An European Union family web portal was launched today. The aim of the portal is to present the separate EU organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Google says 'there's no black and white answer' The European Union moved closer to labelling Internet Protocol addresses as personal information yesterday at a public hearing of the Civil Liberties Committee.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - A new framework for regulatory and policy issues recently signed by African information and communication technology (ICT) ministers should speed implementation of the continent's biggest broadband networks, they say. At a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, two weeks ago, ICT ministers signed a protocol that hammers together guidelines for new and ongoing projects. The meeting was organized by the e-Africa Commission, part of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), and brought together ministers from eastern and southern Africa. Zambian Communications and Transport Permanent Secretary Peter Tembo told the IDG News Service that the aim of the new guidelines and infrastructure plans is to integrate Africa's telecommunications by connecting networks across the continent. Rwandan President Paul Kagame after the meeting said the new protocol will enable eastern and Southern African governments to work together to develop the region's telecommunications sector and to bring down the high cost of communication. The e-Africa Commission operates under the aegis of NEPAD, whose broadband infrastructure network seeks to ensure a level playing field and equal access to infrastructure. The e-Africa Commission has two major plans: to integrate existing infrastructure, and to construct new infrastructure. The protocol commits the signatories to the construction and operation of broadband infrastructure networks including the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSY) project. The other major project is Comtel, a broadband infrastructure project spearheaded by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in conjunction with NEPAD. It is to connect 21 eastern and southern African countries to Europe and Asia. The protocol also calls for African countries to harmonize their national policies and regulations to facilitate the construction and operation of the infrastructure. At the moment, eastern and southern African countries have different policies and regulatory methods and agencies. In addition, the protocol provides for the formation of a so-called special purpose vehicle (SPV), a consortium made up of regional telecommunication companies to own, manage and maintain the EASSY project and terrestrial infrastructure network. "The protocol facilitates provision of ICT broadband infrastructures to support high-speed, high-quality and reliable telecommunication in the eastern and southern African region," said Tembo. The EASSY project will be built by French telecommunication giant Alcatel SA -- soon to merge with the U.S.'s Lucent Technologies Inc. -- at the cost of US$280 million, and is expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of 2007. The company to construct the Comtel project has not yet been named. However, the project is expected to be operational in the third quarter of 2007 and will cost $30 million, according to Comesa assistant secretary general Sindiso Ngwenya. The Comtel project will be owned and operated by the national telecommunication organizations from the 21 countries.
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The revised team of European commissioners headed by Jose Manuel Durao Barroso was approved by the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday.
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NATO defense ministers agreed on  Thursday that fast action was needed to tackle the threat of  &quot;cyber attacks&quot; on key Internet sites after Estonia suffered a  wave of assaults on its computer networks last month.
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A ruling in Belgium that makes an ISP in that country responsible for blocking illegal file-sharing on its network could set a precedent for other countries in the European Union.
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The European Commission and the U.N. Development Program have created an electronic network to help the Albanian government collect data and share information, officials said Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, May 25 -- An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google's Internet search engine follows European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.
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The European Commission will make proposals by mid-2008 aimed at creating a single European market in the burgeoning sector of online music, films and games.
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BRUSSELS -- European Union states should clamp down on radical imams and Internet "hate speech" and train police and teachers on the dangers of Islamist militancy, according to a confidential plan seen by Reuters.
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A European Court of Justice ruling this morning appears on the surface to reaffirm the rights of Internet users from having their data subpoenaed in civil trials. But a deeper read of the ruling shows the high court left the matter wide open.
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Researchers in Europe have received EU funding to develop tools for building complex open-source systems.
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The European Commission said Thursday it would draw up plans to boost the online market for music, films and games while promising to uphold intellectual property rights.