EU Stories for 2015

Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion 87
EU Rules Would Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media 161
Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Charges In Europe 33
First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity 21
Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror 138
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack 275
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
EU Passes Net Neutrality Rules, Fails To Close Loopholes 59
Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Could Allow Throttling of Torrents and VPNs 161
EU Rules Bitcoin Is a Currency, Exchanges Are VAT-Exempt 75
Europe and Russia Are Headed Back To the Moon Together 65
Fenno-German 'Sea Lion' Telecom Cable Laying Begins 39
Europe Code Week 2015: Cocktails At Microsoft, 'Ode To Code' Robot Dancing 15
EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid 205
Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops 330
EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores 93
Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be 164
Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" 181
EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US 202
France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide 381
EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work 241
EU Parliament Votes To Ban Cloning of Farm Animals 116
Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source 29
Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals 179
Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' 330
EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People 132
Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company 193
Bitcoin Exempt From VAT Says European Court of Justice 72
Data Store and Spying Laws Found Illegal By EU Court 64
Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe 294
European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout 485
Greece Rejects EU Terms 1307
European Government Agrees On Net Neutrality Rules, With Exemptions 37
Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? 266
European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments 401
49 Suspected Members of Cybercriminal Group Arrested In Europe 23
Microsoft Lets EU Governments Inspect Source Code For Security Issues 143
Rosetta Team Proposes Landing On Comet To Finish Mission 35
Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn 253
EU Drops Plans For Safer Pesticides After Pressure From US 156
Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment 743
Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian 396
European Internet Users Urged To Protect Themselves Against Facebook Tracking 147
European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google 198
Dropbox Moves Accounts Outside North America To Ireland 135
Europe Vows To Get Rid of Geo-Blocking 114
Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA 153
Google Responds To EU Antitrust Claims In Android Blog Post 245
EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges 247
EU's Unitary Software Patent Challenged At the Belgian Constitutional Court 42
Report: Facebook Tracks Visitors Who Have Opted Out, Violating EU Law 40
EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking 57
Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption 161
Europe Agrees On Regulatory Drone Framework 14
European Commission Will Increase Use of Open Source Software 37
European Commission Proposes "Digital Single Market" and End To Geoblocking 137
Finland's Education System Supersedes "Subjects" With "Topics" 213
Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? 734
EU Free Data Roaming, Net Neutrality Plans In Jeopardy 71
Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? 253
EU Preparing Vast Air Passenger Database 73
ESA Complete Spaceplane Test Flight; IXV Safely Returns To Earth 56
EU Parliament Blocks Outlook Apps For Members Over Privacy Concerns 24
ESA's Experimental Wingless Space Plane IXV Ready For a Test Flight 35
Google Avoids Fine In UK But Will Change Its Privacy Policies 57
Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister 328
Europe and China Will Team Up For a Robotic Space Mission 39
TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband 54
Calls For European ISPs To Filter Content Could Be Illegal 60
Several European Countries Lay Groundwork For Heavier Internet Censorhip 319
2015 Means EU Tax Increase On Cloud Storage, E-books and Smartphone Applications 164