Internet
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25 January 20121Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw
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Internet
Right to be forgotten law welcomed
25 January 20127PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Internet
ACTA non grata
24 January 2012PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
2 January 2012PresseuropPúblico
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Internet
The new gold mine of open data
16 December 20113La Stampa Turin -
European of the Week
The cyber-revolutionary on Tahrir Square
6 December 20111Fokus Stockholm -
Netherlands
Cracks open in Dutch digital dykes
6 September 2011PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Netherlands
Dutch register will eat your cookies
30 August 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
5 July 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia
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Internet
Crime spreads on the web
5 May 20112PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
Poland
E-commerce in vogue
22 April 2011PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
13 April 20111The Christian Science Monitor Boston
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28 March 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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16 March 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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11 February 2011Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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19 January 2011PresseuropRespekt
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Estonia
Tallinn builds up cyber army
14 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
22 December 2010PresseuropPúblico
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New technologies
Poland hits internet warp speed
17 December 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Internet
Google under investigation
1 December 20101PresseuropLa Tribune -
Internet
EU chews on web cookies
25 November 2010The Wall Street Journal Europe Brussels -
Editorial
Long live net neutrality
12 November 2010Presseurop -
Internet
Italy, the broadband slowcoach
10 November 2010PresseuropWired Italia -
E-commerce
EU button to free online trade
23 September 20101PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
2 September 2010Presseuropi
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Data retention
Is Europe building Big Brother?
9 August 2010The Christian Science Monitor Boston -
Civil liberties
Big Brussels is watching you
9 June 2010De Standaard Brussels -
Internet
The Pirate International is born
20 April 2010PresseuropPúblico -
12 April 2010PresseuropGandul
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3 March 2010The Times London
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Internet
Brussels fixes sights on Google
25 February 2010PresseuropLe Figaro -
18 February 20101Adevărul Bucharest
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Bulgaria
Kafka at the customs
13 January 20101Dnevnik Sofia -
ESTONIA
Get an e-life
9 December 20091Eesti Ekspress Tallinn -
Central and Eastern Europe
Some post-communist dos and don'ts
2 December 2009Hospodářské noviny Prague -
26 November 2009România libera Bucharest
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Internet
Online access is now a human right
6 November 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Romania
Winter of discontent
22 October 20091Adevărul Bucharest -
Internet
Bug in Sweden's anti-piracy law
24 September 2009PresseuropLibération -
Illegal downloading
Releasing the pirate within
22 July 2009Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Internet
Sages uphold surfers' rights
11 June 2009PresseuropLe Figaro
As the Polish government prepares to sign the anti-piracy ACTA treaty, thousands of young internet users have taken to the streets in protest. Like most of their fellow Europeans, they fear it may “label their existential choices and free expression of identity as piracy,” explains internet anthropologist Piotr Cichocki. 
Encouraged by Brussels, the online availability of open data provided by public authorities could give rise to a multitude of applications that are useful to citizens and society, with economic gains estimated at no less than 140 billion euros per year. 
If Mubarak failed to cut the Egyptian revolutionaries off from the rest of the world last January, it was thanks to a Swedish student and theorist of hacktivism: Christopher Kullenberg, named “Swede of the Year” by the weekly Fokus. A profile. 
The EU plan to pass an internet privacy law enshrining the “right to disappear” online will dramatically affect how companies like Facebook conduct business, and raises questions about freedom of expression on the web. 
Europe's effort to regulate online "cookies" is crumbling, exposing how tough it is to curb the practice of tracking Internet users' movements on the Web. 
What the European Union is giving to Internet users and online privacy activists with one hand, it's taking away with the other, argues an American newspaper, reporting on a groundswell of opposition to increased surveillance of personal data. 
The European Union believes that the high technology monitoring of its citizens' movements is justified by the need to ensure their security. But not everyone is convinced that increased surveillance will act as a safeguard. Activists, like lawyer Raf Jespers, argue that technology is already violating the fundamental right to privacy. 
How much control should we have over personal information on the web? A generation gap exists over attitudes towards privacy, remarks British columnist David Aaronovitch. 
An Icelandic legislative initiative to protect the media and a create a safe haven for investigative journalists from all over the world: the project launched by the WikiLeaks website, which has gained support from several Icelandic MPs, could put an end to abusive libel actions. 
To pick up a package of T-shirts purchased online, a Bulgarian journalist spent several hours, queuing at different counters, filling in forms, and participating in absurd dialogues. His account of half a day in the company of Customs Services agents prompted an outcry in the country. 
In politics, health care, education, Estonia has been in the vanguard of internet use in every area of public life for years now. But all this e-life could be taking its toll on real life, cautions an editorialist. 
Jobs, government, infrastructure: in the wake of 1989, the countries of the former communist block had to re-invent themselves. As Czech daily Hospodářské Noviny notes, the different strategies they chose resulted in some initiatives that were well-prepared and some that were wholly unsavoury. 
In recent months a series of scoops in the European press have unearthed widespread abuse of taxpayers’ money by MPs and ministers in several member countries. As UK and Italian politicos continue to be pilloried, the European Parliament has started putting its own house in order. 
Hard hit by the economic crisis, and without a government since mid-October, Romania has fallen on hard times, to the point where some of its institutions have been left without electricity. While politicians battle to gain control of the government, the gap in living standards between the country and other states in the EU continues to widen. The editor of Adevarul looks on in dispair. 
The sale of Pirate Bay, the largest file-sharing site in the world, and the will of certain governments – France's notably – to penalise illegal downloading, has re-opened the debate on copyright. As Romanian weekly Dilema Veche observes, all surfers are potential web delinquents.