Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

FATCA and the challenges of EU tax administration and policy | fundamental rights in cross-border information exchange

The European Parliament think tank in October published the study ‘Exploring the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for EU tax administration and policy‘. The protection of taxpayer’s rights is discussed in paragraph 4.2, including the consequences of cross-border information … Lees verder →

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Ronald Pol: “Anti-money laundering: The world’s least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it”

Ronald F. Pol wrote the paper “Anti-money laundering: The world’s least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it“, published on Taylor & Francis Online. From the abstract: It finds that the anti-money laundering policy intervention has less than 0.1 … Lees verder →

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GDPR enforcement by the Irish DPC under attack

The Irish data protection supervisor, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), responsible for enforcement of GDPR rules against (amongst others) big tech, is under fire. Recently Max Schrems’ privacy organisation noyb was quarreling with DPC, read their article Irish DPC removes … Lees verder →

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Vaccination and trust

Is the European Union naive about vaccination? It appears so when I read the European Commission’s communication of the 1st of December. According to the document the covid-19 vaccines are completely safe (even though a lot of medical studies are … Lees verder →

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Has Big Pharma taken over WHO? | vaccination marketing

Today we are experiencing extraordinary times, not only because suddenly no one is criticizing the pharmaceutical industry anymore (any gagging taking place?). Even more amazing is that the WHO is actively promoting vaccination in the lovely video below, published in … Lees verder →

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European fundamental rights pretensions and sour reality

Europe has great pretensions when it comes to fundamental rights, but unfortunately the reality is different. This can be seen in the European approach (especially Commission and Council) to the USA’s abusive practices in the area of Citizenship-Based Taxation and … Lees verder →

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Tomorrow: AML developments discussed in a working group of LIBE | European Parliament

Those interested in finding out what the future surveillance society in Europe will look like, should follow the developments regarding anti-money laundering (AML). For them tomorrow there is an interesting event, organised by the Democracy, Rule of law and Fundamental … Lees verder →

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General and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communications is permitted only in the event of a serious threat to national security | opinion ECJ

On 18 november an opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona on retention of traffic and location data for the Court of Justice of the European Union was published. In this opinion he reiterates that the general and indiscriminate retention of … Lees verder →

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Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA): ‘Counter terrorism but respect fundamental rights’

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) in a press release of 18 November (html , pdf) asks for better anti-terorrism legislation that respects fundamental rights. It refers to a FRA-report. From the press-release: The report examines the EU’s main criminal … Lees verder →

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Cristian Terheş and other MEPs campaigning against European discriminatory corona-measures

Cristian Terheş, member of the European Parliament (MEP), together with other MEPs still is campaigning against the European covid-19 measures. In an earlier post I mentioned the press conferences of 20 and 28 October 2021. On 25 November 2021 Terheş … Lees verder →

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