November 27, 2015 · Blogs

EDRi’s press review 2015

JANUARY 21/01 Some French want a Patriot Act, but they have something even tougher (globalpost) 21/01 Eurovision tellybods: Yes, you heard right – net neutrality (The Register) 21/01 EBU urges European net neutrality (Digital TV Europe) 21/01 Some French want a Patriot Act, but they have something even tougher (globalpost) 22/01 Calls for European ISPs […]

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December 20, 2016 · Press mentions

EDRi’s Press Review 2016

During the past year, our work to defend citizens’ rights and freedoms online has gained an impressive visibility – we counted nearly four hundred mentions! – in European and international media. Below, you can find our press review 2016.

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November 4, 2015 · Blogs

ENDitorial: A system you never heard of undermined net neutrality

Trialogues. You may never have heard of them but they’re the single biggest threat to the credibility of European Parliament’s claim to be a democratic institution. Net neutrality explains why. In September 2013, the European Commission produced its half-baked anti-net neutrality/spectrum/user-rights/roaming proposal. The European Commission believed that the “end of roaming” was such an attractive […]

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July 12, 2017 · Blogs

Net Neutrality: BEREC misses opportunity to lead the way

In November 2015, the European Union adopted the Net Neutrality Regulation (2015/2120), which contained a number of compromises that needed clarification. The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) was given the task of developing implementation guidelines to ensure a consistent application of the Regulation throughout Europe and, in practice, settle the remaining ambiguities […]

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December 5, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet

Net Neutrality vs. 5G: What to expect from the upcoming EU review?

Since 2016 the principle of net neutrality is protected in the European Union (EU). Net neutrality is a founding principle of the internet. It ensures the protection of the right to freedom of expression, the right to assembly, the right to conduct business, and the freedom to innovate on the internet. These protections came about […]

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December 3, 2014 · Blogs

Two steps forward and two steps back on net neutrality

The last few weeks have generated a lot of noise but little progress on net neutrality. A few weeks ago, the European Parliament had a strong position on the subject, having adopted its first reading of the Telecoms Single Market Regulation in April, while the Council, despite the best efforts of the Italian presidency-in-office had […]

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April 30, 2019 · Open letters | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet

Two years of net neutrality in Europe – 31 NGOs urge to guarantee non-discriminatory treatment of communications

Today, on 30 April 2019, two years after the new net neutrality rules came into force, the EU Commission published its Report to evaluate their implementation in Europe. Unfortunately, the Report does not give the in-depth analysis of the situation that one could have hoped for. It ignores the fact that the respect for net […]

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April 15, 2015 · Document pools

Net Neutrality: document pool II

On 4 March 2015, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union received the mandate from the Member States to start negotiations with the EU Parliament and the Commission on the “Telecommunications Single Market Regulation”, which includes provisions on net neutrality. The trialogue discussions between the three institutions officially started on 23 March 2015. […]

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September 11, 2013 · Blogs

Net Neutrality threatened by the Commission’s draft regulation

For the past years, EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who started by advocating for net neutrality, has constantly given in to the pressure of large telecom companies, changing her direction from protecting net neutrality to threatening it. The current draft Regulation made public on 11 September 2013 just confirms this direction. La Quadrature du Net and […]

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May 17, 2017 · Blogs

Dutch ban on zero-rating struck down – major blow to net neutrality

20 April 2017 was a bad day for net neutrality in the Netherlands, and possibly also in the rest of Europe. The court of Rotterdam struck down the general ban on price discrimination, including zero-rating, as enacted in the Dutch Telecommunications Act. The court held that the categorical ban on price discrimination is “evidently” in […]

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February 13, 2019 · Publications | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet

A study evaluates the net neutrality situation in the EU

Two and a half years after the adoption of the guidelines confirming strong protection for net neutrality in Europe, Austrian EDRi member epicenter.works published a study on the enforcement and status quo of net neutrality. The study entitled “The Net Neutrality Situation in the EU: Evaluation of the First Two Years of Enforcement” examines whether […]

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December 15, 2015 · Blogs

Net neutrality – now it is the regulators’ turn to bring clarity

Our work on net neutrality is not over. Today, 15 December, the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) Net Neutrality Expert Working Group is hearing civil society and consumer organisations’ views on how it should address the lack of clarity of the Regulation that was recently adopted on net neutrality. “BEREC has the opportunity […]

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