Category Archives: European Union

Europa Press Releases: Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold

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"The [European Commission's Open Data Strategy for Europe is] to lift performance EU-wide is three-fold: firstly the Commission will lead by example, opening its vaults of information to the public for free through a new data portal. Secondly, a level playing field for open data across the EU will be established. Finally, these new measures are backed by the €100 million which will be granted in 2011-2013 to fund research into improved data-handling technologies."

Deutsche Welle: EU to launch tender for open data portal

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"In the coming weeks, the EU will launch a tender for tech companies and freelance programmers to create an EU-wide online portal to allow access to government information and services. ... the project's aim is to change how European citizens interact with government on a range of levels to make government data, statistics and other figures, more easily accessible."

Observer: Aghast Mail bemoans birth of ‘European superstate’

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Peter Preston: "[Stephen Glover] could go on now to inquire whether it's really good enough for poor editor Paul Dacre to cover an all-powerful superstate via its political staff in SW1. And, to be frank, because nobody bar the FT quite escapes the blight of shrunk or shrinking EU coverage, similar logic closes over all Fleet Street like a vice."

International Herald Tribune: German reporter wins press freedom case in European Court of Human Rights

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"In a ruling welcomed as a victory for freedom of the press, [the ECHR] has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published reports alleging fraud within the European Union."