EU Stories for 2020

What Happened When Finland Tried to Lure the World's Remote Tech Workers? 24
Google Wins EU Approval for Fitbit Bid Amid Tech Crackdown 11
Europe Triples Down on Tough Rules for Tech 54
How Europe's Night Trains Came Back From the Dead 89
Tech Firms Risk Fines of 10% of Sales in EU Power Curb Bid 13
'Save Europe from Software Patents', Urges Nonprofit FFII 33
Big Tech Firms To Face 6% Fines If Breach New EU Content Rules 42
EU Member States Agree 55% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030 65
EU Agency in Charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Says it Was Hacked 40
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
Google, Online Platforms Told by EU To Explain Search Rankings 89
EU Pushes for 'Right To Disconnect' From Work at Home 63
EU Privacy Rule Would Rein In the Hunt for Online Child Sexual Abuse 66
Google Set To Win EU Approval For Fitbit Takeover Next Week 9
EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 24% Since 1990 164
EU Lawmakers To Push Audio-Visual Sector on Geoblocking 45
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
European Parliament Votes For Right To Repair 110
European Regulators Prepare For MAX To Return To Service In 2021 40
EU Says It Could Be Self-Sufficient In Electric Vehicle Batteries By 2025 87
Elon Musk Talks New Tesla Model In Europe 102
EU Plans To Increase Offshore Windfarm Capacity By 250% 111
Google CEO Apologises for Document, EU's Breton Warns Internet is Not Wild West 48
EU Files Antitrust Charges Against Amazon Over Use of Data 18
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Has Applied To Become a Citizen of Cyprus 179
In World First, Slovokia Plans To Test the Entire Country For COVID-19 80
Therapy Patients Blackmailed For Cash After Clinic Data Breach 55
While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection 305
Google Search Rivals Urge EU To Revisit Android Antitrust Case 15
Massive Criminal Trial Begins For 'Cyberbunker' Dark Web Server 16
EU Says Veggie Burgers Can Keep Their Name 165
EU Sanctions Russia Over 2015 German Parliament Hack 58
Instagram's Handling of Kids' Data Is Now Being Probed In the EU 2
EU Shoots For $11.7B 'Industrial Cloud' To Rival US 77
The Long Wait for Google's $2.1 Billion Fitbit Deal 3
Boeing 737 Max Judged Safe To Fly By Europe's Aviation Regulator 70
France and the Netherlands Call For Tough EU Powers To Curb Big Tech 25
Electric Car Sales Triple In Race To Meet Europe CO2 Rules 167
EU Targets Big Tech With 'Hit List' Facing Tougher Rules 33
EU Parliament Votes For 60% Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cut By 2030 101
EU Lawmakers Ask Jeff Bezos Whether Amazon Spies on Politicians 49
Europe's Top Court Confirms No Mass Surveillance Without Limits 23
'Green Hydrogen' From Renewables Could Become the Cheapest 'Transformative Fuel' 130
Study Sounds Alarm on 5G Fake News, EU Needs To Promote Benefits 49
UK Risks Losing Contract For New Climate Research Centre Because of Brexit 119
EU's Vestager Appeals Court Veto of $15 Billion Apple Tax Order 29
Apple May Face EU Rules To Open Up Payment Technology 34
EU To Launch Blockchain Regulatory Sandbox by 2022 9
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Will Invest Over $1 Billion in European Moonshots 24
Proposal Would Give EU Power To Boot Tech Giants Out of European Market 85
European Spacecraft Flying Past Venus Will Now Look for Signs of Life 15
Europe's Top Court Says Net Neutrality Rules Bar 'Zero Rating' 81
European Police Malware Could Harvest GPS, Messages, Passwords, More 29
Facebook Fights Irish Privacy Watchdog's Data-Transfer Curbs 15
Ireland To Order Facebook To Stop Sending User Data To US 38
Facebook Stops French Man From Streaming His Dying Days 140
EU Draft Plan Targets Free Carbon Credit Cut For Most Industries 70
US Tech Stocks Are Now Worth More Than the Entire European Stock Market 77
Two European Cases of COVID-19 Reinfection Reported 69
It's Official: EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into Google's Fitbit Takeover 15
Google Threatens to Remove All Danish Music From YouTube 83
Google Victory In German Top Court Over Right To Be Forgotten 23
Google's $2.1 Billion Fitbit Deal Faces Full-Scale EU Antitrust Investigation 12
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites To Plant Fake Stories 67
Offshore Wind In Europe Won't Need Subsidies Much Longer 83
Iter: World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Begins Assembly 65
Facebook Takes EU To Court For Invading Privacy 28
'Solar Orbiter' Delivers Closest Pictures Ever Taken of the Sun 13
Renewable Power Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time In Europe 99
EU Clinches Massive Stimulus Deal To Bind Continent Together 182
Tech Firms Like Facebook Must Restrict Data Sent From EU To US, Court Rules 74
Tesla to Make Molecule Printers for Gates-Backed Vaccine Developer 84
Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service 144
Google's Fitbit Takeover Probed by EU Regulators 9
Apple Executive Defends App Store Rules Scrutinized by EU and US 41
Mysterious Spike In Radioactivity Over Northern Europe, Accident At Russian Nuclear Plant Suspected 204
How Did the World Miss Covid-19's Silent Spread? 265
Bots Still Trying To Reach Cyberbunker 2.0 Addresses 9 Months After Raid 13
Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State 382
EU May Ban Travel From US As It Reopens Borders, Citing Coronavirus Failures 231
Quest for a Vaccine: Oxford Reaches Final Large-Scale Trial 256
France Upholds $50M Fine Against Google For GDPR Violations 26
EU Launches Antitrust Probes Into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay 44
EU To Hit Amazon With Antitrust Charges Over Treatment of Third-Party Sellers, Report Says 42
The European Space Agency is Funding Its Own Reusable Rocket 112
Microsoft Dropped for Open Source Again in Germany: Hamburg Follows Munich's Lead 88
Will The Transition To IPv6 Take 5 to 10 Years? 198
France, Germany Back European Cloud Computing 'Moonshot' 78
Dutch Restaurant Will Re-Open With Robot Waiters 65
EU's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue To Fall As Coal Ditched 152
Tile Writes to EU Accusing Apple of Abuse of Power 48
Germany Calls In Russian Envoy Over Hack Attack 30
Munich Says It's Now Shifting Back From Microsoft to Open Source Software -- Again 88
Lockdown-Ignoring Sweden Now Has Europe's Highest Per-Capita Death Rate 389
Grandmother Ordered To Delete Facebook Photos Under GDPR 101
Netflix Is Starting To Restore Normal Streaming Quality In Parts of Europe 7
Google Faces Privacy Complaint for Tracking Users in EU 12
Paris Tries AI That Counts How Many People are Wearing Face Masks 14
No Cookie Consent Walls -- and No, Scrolling Isn't Consent, Says EU Data Protection Body 284
Health Officials Worry About Possible Lack of Cooperation on Coronavirus Vaccines 324
Broadcom Offers To Scrap Exclusivity Deals To End EU Antitrust Probe 20
The Right to Work From Home Could Be Guaranteed By Law in Germany 98
Facing Criticism, Germany Switches to Google/Apple's Decentralized Contact Tracing 71
Google, Apple Covid-19 Tracking Tech Faces EU Scrutiny 68
Italy Working On Coronavirus Tracing App To Help Lockdown Exit 74
EU Rules Rental Car Companies Don't Need To Pay A License To Rent Cars With Radios That Might Play Music 18
EU Justice Chief Urges US Tech Giants To Halt Virus Clickbaits 23
German Leader Angela Merkel in Quarantine after Her Doctor Tests Positive for Coronavirus 88
Russia Accused of Deploying Coronavirus Disinformation to Sow Distrust 197
Netflix To Reduce EU Bandwidth by 25% 60
European Union Will Close External Borders For 30 Days To Slow Coronavirus Pandemic 87
Data of Millions of eBay and Amazon Shoppers Exposed 39
Should Google Notify Web Sites About Right-to-Be-Forgotten Requests? 46
Europe Is Now the 'Epicenter' of the Coronavirus Pandemic, WHO Says 195
European Lawmakers Propose a 'Right To Repair' For Mobiles and Laptops 120
After Coronavirus, Airlines are Flying Empty 'Ghost' Flights in Europe 106
Citroën Unveils a Tiny $6,600, 6-Kilowatt Electric Car 210
EU Commission To Staff: Switch To Signal Messaging App 46
Nonprofit Argues Germany Can't Ratify the 'Unitary Patent' Because of Brexit 64
Are APIs Putting Financial Data At Risk? 66
Europe Takes on China, US With Plan To Regulate Global Tech 82
EU Judge Raises Prospect of Increasing Multibillion Fine Against Google 86
Facebook Dating Launch Blocked In Europe After It Fails To Show Privacy Workings 16
Brexit Happens 556
EU Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly in Favor of Charging Cable Standard, Despite Apple's Protestations 227
Apple Fights EU Call For Common Smartphone Charger, Claiming Consumer Harm 178
Scientists Are Generating Oxygen from Simulated Moon Dust 83
EU Mulls Five-Year Ban on Facial Recognition Tech in Public Areas 25
Europe Plans Law To Give All Phones Same Charger 215
Bing Loses Out To DuckDuckGo in Google's New Android Search Engine Ballot 37
Peter Kirstein, Father of the European Internet, Is Dead At 86 22
Finland To Introduce Four-Day Working Week and Six-Hour Days [Update] 173
EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications in Which an AI Was Designated As the Inventor 39