Video viEUws.eu: EU Tech Briefing: Digital Single Market, roaming charges, Data Protection Regulation, copyright reform, Google antitrust case & 'Europe versus Facebook'

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In this Brussels Briefing on Tech, leading journalist Jennifer Baker provides an extensive update on the latest EU digital & ICT policy developments:

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  Digital Single Market: Andrus Ansip i, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, promises to present a new strategy before the summer
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  Copyright reform: report by rapporteur Julia Reda i on the InfoSoc Directive - the EU’s current copyright rules - will be debated in the JURI committee on Monday 23 March
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  EU Telecoms Package: MEPs are furious over Ministers’ decision to keep roaming charges until at least 2018
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  Leaks suggest that the current Data Protection Regulation proposal is being modified, European Parliament plans to link the ‘one stop shop’ proposal with the Passenger Name Record (PNR)
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  ‘Europe versus Facebook’ privacy case to be referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday 24 March
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  Google: newly appointed antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager i met with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to discuss a four-year-old probe into the company’s search engine