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EU-US data transfer pact faces legal hurdles

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EU/US

The Framework’s adoption would be facilitated by the possible passage in the United States of a long-awaited federal consumer privacy law. European data protection authorities…

Russia and EU in final phase of rubles-for-gas contest

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RUSSIA

EU states have said previously that payment must be in euros or dollars, as stipulated in contracts. A new advisory note from the Commission suggests that buyers could comply with…

ECJ ruling further dims EU-US data protection outlook

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EU/US

The ECJ ruling could add to potential disruptions to transatlantic commercial data flows arising from the EU's developing data protection regime that a study for the US Chamber of…

New Greek government right or left will undo austerity

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GREECE

The Syriza government, trailing by a margin of around 10 percentage points (pp), has abandoned its commitment to creditors to reduce pensions and taxes in exchange for debt relief…

US tech policy reform will prioritise data protection

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UNITED STATES

New state-level data protection laws, and a potential federal privacy law, are emerging as an important challenge for major US technology firms. Already they face rising pressures…

Bosnian Serbs are closest yet to seceding

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BOSNIA

Dodik’s latest threat to break up Bosnia.

Supervision change could politicise banking in Georgia

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GEORGIA

Tensions between the governing Georgian Dream (GD) coalition, President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Kadagidze have risen rapidly in recent months, sparked by the government's…

Brexit will not defy EU data protection gold standard

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EU/UK

Data protection and Brexit.

Bosnian Serbs are moving closer to exiting BiH

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BOSNIA

Dodik’s law would transfer responsibility for elections in RS from the Central Electoral Commission to its RS equivalent, severing the RS political system from BiH and enabling…

IMF may stop contributing to Greek bailout

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GREECE/INT

The second phase of the current bailout, extended until end-June, foresees a final installment of 7.2 billion euros (8.2 billion dollars) in exchange for fiscal and structural…