Europe protects the internet users from the stranglehold of the Gafa ?

In five years, Europe has not been idle to assert itself in the sector of digital. On nearly thirty texts proposed by the Commission Juncker, twenty-eight have

Europe protects the internet users from the stranglehold of the Gafa ?

In five years, Europe has not been idle to assert itself in the sector of digital. On nearly thirty texts proposed by the Commission Juncker, twenty-eight have been finalized. They extend the rights of the consumer in copyright law, through the end of the barriers to e-commerce or even the abolition of roaming charges for calls between the countries of Europe. All are part of a same strategy: to make 28 fragmented States a "digital single market" (digital single market) and thus to better resist the american domination and its avatars the most iconic, Gafa (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple).

in the Face of these actors as powerful as States, including capitalization, total converter 3 099 billion dollars, Europe has taken courageous decisions. Its commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, has ordered Apple to pay its taxes in Ireland, to the tune of 13 billion euros. She has also delivered two fines against Google, ...

Date Of Update: 24 May 2019, 00:00
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