Digital Affairs

Digital transformation in the EU

The European Union advocates a digital transformation in Europe. Globalised interconnectedness means widening the scope of financial opportunities for small businesses and enterprises. The European Parliament also intends to support digital education, with which the digital divide in and outside (…)

Saturday 19 June 2021

The effect of Covid-19 disinformation across Europe

There is a link between the Covid-19 pandemic and the increase of Facebook’s infodemic, the information epidemic. In fact, Facebook does not protect Europeans from misinformation, despite its will to do so. Facebook’s aim is to remove false information and news spread across its community (…)

Saturday 15 May 2021

THE ERA OF POLITICAL PIRACY

Cyber-attacks have become a recurring event in our lives. Who has never received a strange email, sometimes sent by one of our contacts, inviting us to click on a link or give money to someone supposedly in need? Why should we care These scams are commonplace and harm the servers we depend (…)

Saturday 1 May 2021

Digital Green Certificate, a tool to facilitate safe free movement across the EU

The European Commission has communicated a plan for a common path to safe and sustained re-opening to recover our European way of life. The covid-19 pandemic continues to be a major global threat, forcing the Member States to extend and impose a wide range of restrictions to control it. These (…)

Saturday 10 April 2021

Data is power: how our new informational ecosystem on social media defies democracy

DEMOCRACY UNDER PRESSURE. This article is part of our feature investigating challenges to democracy in Europe. From 22nd March to 4th April, we are digging into the most troublesome threats to citizens’ freedoms and participation in democratic society across our continent – from data privacy (…)

Sunday 28 March 2021

Digital democracy: a new life for political participation?

The boom of technological changes in the last decade has been rapidly moving life online, including government processes. This has been massively extended during the Covid-19 pandemic. The possibility of updating democracy to fit a technologically advanced world is looking all the more likely. (…)

Saturday 27 March 2021

Repair or Replace? A question for the digital era

Between unfair wages, heavy mining activities, and important CO2-emissions, the electronic industry is not sustainable in its current practice. In times of home office and digitalisation, almost everyone nowadays possesses an electronic device such as a smartphone or a laptop - and will sooner (…)

Saturday 13 February 2021

Trump’s Twitter and Facebook ban sheds light on the power struggle between tech companies and the rule of law

On January 6th, Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to delay President Biden’s election certification. As suggested by the New York Times, the mob attack was unquestionably incited by former US President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of the insurrection, Big Tech companies (…)

Saturday 23 January 2021

We bid virtual goodbye to 2020

A month ago, president of France Emmanuel Macron said 2020’s Christmas would have to be a “Christmas like no other”. He was right. It was not a Christmas that will be easily forgotten by the generations that experienced it. It has become almost instinctive to reunite with family, friends, and (…)

Saturday 2 January 2021

Digital Services Act: The European Union seeks to reinforce its GAFAM strategy

With the latest investigation of Apple for its potential anti-trust violations, the European Commissioner Margarethe Vestager attacked ‘Big Tech’ companies Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM). The issue: the fines that have been occasionally handed down are insignificant (…)

Saturday 19 December 2020

A digital euro: the European Central Bank picks up on accelerated digitalisation

The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a public consultation to decide whether to set in motion the ‘digital euro project’. Questions about the benefits, risks, and reasoning behind the project have arisen, most of which have been answered by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of (…)

Saturday 12 December 2020

Digital and technological sovereignty: Europe’s new battle

’European Magnifying Glass’ is a partnership between The New Federalist, our sister publication Le Taurillon, and three Paris-based webzines: Eurosorbonne, Voix d’Europe and Courrier d’Europe. In this instalment, we shine the spotlight on two issues raised during the 56th Munich Security (…)

Monday 30 March 2020
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