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In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Pressure on Japan's export-based economy will increase under the Trump administration, especially in vital industries like auto manufacturing, semiconductors, and batteries. In addition to raising prices in already highly competitive sectors, further US tariffs on Japanese goods would seriously harm Japan's auto industry in the US. Since China <\/a>is still Japan's largest trading partner and its economy is heavily dependent on Chinese supply chains, the country may also experience indirect economic difficulties as a result of the growing US-China trade tensions. Japan will probably increase US-based production in strategic industries in order to evade tariffs and comply with US restructuring objectives. A weaker ruling coalition and a prime minister without a majority are the outcomes of Japan's recent general election. This will make it more difficult for Japan to preserve strategic independence or make quick changes to its foreign policy, including quickly putting any countermeasures in place in response to undesirable US choices. On the other hand, Tokyo was quite good at subtly influencing Washington's goals during the first Trump administration under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Today, the Japanese government appears to be under more pressure to meet American demands while also becoming more introspective and reactive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Pressure on Japan's export-based economy will increase under the Trump administration, especially in vital industries like auto manufacturing, semiconductors, and batteries. In addition to raising prices in already highly competitive sectors, further US tariffs on Japanese goods would seriously harm Japan's auto industry in the US. Since China <\/a>is still Japan's largest trading partner and its economy is heavily dependent on Chinese supply chains, the country may also experience indirect economic difficulties as a result of the growing US-China trade tensions. Japan will probably increase US-based production in strategic industries in order to evade tariffs and comply with US restructuring objectives. A weaker ruling coalition and a prime minister without a majority are the outcomes of Japan's recent general election. This will make it more difficult for Japan to preserve strategic independence or make quick changes to its foreign policy, including quickly putting any countermeasures in place in response to undesirable US choices. On the other hand, Tokyo was quite good at subtly influencing Washington's goals during the first Trump administration under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Today, the Japanese government appears to be under more pressure to meet American demands while also becoming more introspective and reactive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
However, the answer lies in Europeans doing much more, not less, with their key Asian allies. This includes fostering defense readiness in both Asia and Europe, preserving industrial and economic ties, and staying committed to the climate crisis. For such ambitious diplomacy to succeed, European officials must comprehend the expectations and fears that their colleagues in South Korea, India, and Japan are likely to see in Trump's America. To better protect itself from a possible Chinese attack, Japan is looking for more collective security mechanisms with the United States as a result of rising geopolitical tensions in its neighborhood. Shigeru Ishiba, the next prime minister, intends to strengthen the United States' bilateral security partnership. Japan quickly reaffirmed its commitment to working with the US after Trump was elected. Already, Tokyo and Washington are closer than ever, particularly in sectors like industrial production for defense and command and control. The Japanese leadership increased outreach to NATO partners and fortified ties with other regional powers including Australia and the Philippines as a result of the first Trump administration's contempt for \u200ctraditional US defense commitments. Now, Japan is probably going to follow this strategy even more vigorously. Tokyo, however, will be keen to demonstrate that it is a valuable regional partner to the US since it still wants to keep American backing. This illustrates how restricted Japan's foreign policy autonomy is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pressure on Japan's export-based economy will increase under the Trump administration, especially in vital industries like auto manufacturing, semiconductors, and batteries. In addition to raising prices in already highly competitive sectors, further US tariffs on Japanese goods would seriously harm Japan's auto industry in the US. Since China <\/a>is still Japan's largest trading partner and its economy is heavily dependent on Chinese supply chains, the country may also experience indirect economic difficulties as a result of the growing US-China trade tensions. Japan will probably increase US-based production in strategic industries in order to evade tariffs and comply with US restructuring objectives. A weaker ruling coalition and a prime minister without a majority are the outcomes of Japan's recent general election. This will make it more difficult for Japan to preserve strategic independence or make quick changes to its foreign policy, including quickly putting any countermeasures in place in response to undesirable US choices. On the other hand, Tokyo was quite good at subtly influencing Washington's goals during the first Trump administration under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Today, the Japanese government appears to be under more pressure to meet American demands while also becoming more introspective and reactive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
However, the answer lies in Europeans doing much more, not less, with their key Asian allies. This includes fostering defense readiness in both Asia and Europe, preserving industrial and economic ties, and staying committed to the climate crisis. For such ambitious diplomacy to succeed, European officials must comprehend the expectations and fears that their colleagues in South Korea, India, and Japan are likely to see in Trump's America. To better protect itself from a possible Chinese attack, Japan is looking for more collective security mechanisms with the United States as a result of rising geopolitical tensions in its neighborhood. Shigeru Ishiba, the next prime minister, intends to strengthen the United States' bilateral security partnership. Japan quickly reaffirmed its commitment to working with the US after Trump was elected. Already, Tokyo and Washington are closer than ever, particularly in sectors like industrial production for defense and command and control. The Japanese leadership increased outreach to NATO partners and fortified ties with other regional powers including Australia and the Philippines as a result of the first Trump administration's contempt for \u200ctraditional US defense commitments. Now, Japan is probably going to follow this strategy even more vigorously. Tokyo, however, will be keen to demonstrate that it is a valuable regional partner to the US since it still wants to keep American backing. This illustrates how restricted Japan's foreign policy autonomy is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pressure on Japan's export-based economy will increase under the Trump administration, especially in vital industries like auto manufacturing, semiconductors, and batteries. In addition to raising prices in already highly competitive sectors, further US tariffs on Japanese goods would seriously harm Japan's auto industry in the US. Since China <\/a>is still Japan's largest trading partner and its economy is heavily dependent on Chinese supply chains, the country may also experience indirect economic difficulties as a result of the growing US-China trade tensions. Japan will probably increase US-based production in strategic industries in order to evade tariffs and comply with US restructuring objectives. A weaker ruling coalition and a prime minister without a majority are the outcomes of Japan's recent general election. This will make it more difficult for Japan to preserve strategic independence or make quick changes to its foreign policy, including quickly putting any countermeasures in place in response to undesirable US choices. On the other hand, Tokyo was quite good at subtly influencing Washington's goals during the first Trump administration under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Today, the Japanese government appears to be under more pressure to meet American demands while also becoming more introspective and reactive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Europe <\/a>and the Indo-Pacific are now strategically entwined and no longer separate political and military zones. Europeans and their Asian allies have been more aware in recent years of the strong relationships that bind their economies, civilizations, and security settings together. Through increased diplomatic engagement, improved defense relations, and sanctions on Russia, they have started to collaborate more. However, this developing friendship could be shattered by the new American administration. President-elect Donald Trump's readiness to undermine or even sever long-standing alliances might persuade allies in Europe and Asia to pursue bilateral agreements rather than foster a cooperative strategy. China and Russia may feel compelled to support Washington's efforts to protect US security assurances if they are pressed on the issue of security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the answer lies in Europeans doing much more, not less, with their key Asian allies. This includes fostering defense readiness in both Asia and Europe, preserving industrial and economic ties, and staying committed to the climate crisis. For such ambitious diplomacy to succeed, European officials must comprehend the expectations and fears that their colleagues in South Korea, India, and Japan are likely to see in Trump's America. To better protect itself from a possible Chinese attack, Japan is looking for more collective security mechanisms with the United States as a result of rising geopolitical tensions in its neighborhood. Shigeru Ishiba, the next prime minister, intends to strengthen the United States' bilateral security partnership. Japan quickly reaffirmed its commitment to working with the US after Trump was elected. Already, Tokyo and Washington are closer than ever, particularly in sectors like industrial production for defense and command and control. The Japanese leadership increased outreach to NATO partners and fortified ties with other regional powers including Australia and the Philippines as a result of the first Trump administration's contempt for \u200ctraditional US defense commitments. Now, Japan is probably going to follow this strategy even more vigorously. Tokyo, however, will be keen to demonstrate that it is a valuable regional partner to the US since it still wants to keep American backing. This illustrates how restricted Japan's foreign policy autonomy is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pressure on Japan's export-based economy will increase under the Trump administration, especially in vital industries like auto manufacturing, semiconductors, and batteries. In addition to raising prices in already highly competitive sectors, further US tariffs on Japanese goods would seriously harm Japan's auto industry in the US. Since China <\/a>is still Japan's largest trading partner and its economy is heavily dependent on Chinese supply chains, the country may also experience indirect economic difficulties as a result of the growing US-China trade tensions. Japan will probably increase US-based production in strategic industries in order to evade tariffs and comply with US restructuring objectives. A weaker ruling coalition and a prime minister without a majority are the outcomes of Japan's recent general election. This will make it more difficult for Japan to preserve strategic independence or make quick changes to its foreign policy, including quickly putting any countermeasures in place in response to undesirable US choices. On the other hand, Tokyo was quite good at subtly influencing Washington's goals during the first Trump administration under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Today, the Japanese government appears to be under more pressure to meet American demands while also becoming more introspective and reactive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the current political climate in which Japan's decision-makers operate, Europe needs to offer itself as a supporting partner. More precisely, by focusing on common interests and assisting Japan in strengthening security cooperation with <\/a>South Korea and Australia, the EU should strengthen its strategic alliance with Japan. The bloc should also engage in active economic discussions with ASEAN nations, as this can contribute significantly to both Europe's and Japan's de-risking agendas. It ought to support Japan's active involvement in global organizations like NATO and the G7. By doing this, Tokyo would be able to increase its strategic contribution without overstretching its alliance with Washington or its domestic capabilities. In terms of the economy, Europe ought to expedite projects like the Digital Partnership and strengthen current frameworks like the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. Following the United Kingdom's intended strategy, major European nations like Germany, France, and Italy should also resume and convene economic \"2+2\" meetings more frequently, at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing East, West, and Trump\u2019s America","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"europes-role-in-the-indo-pacific-balancing-east-west-and-trumps-america","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7306,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-04 18:17:40","post_content":"\n As discussions about the future of Europe's Green Deal<\/a> and other environmental measures continue, new data highlights the sometimes overlooked influence of corporate lobbying on these laws. It has long been known that there is a disconnect between businesses that openly tout their sustainability credentials and those that secretly advocate against environmental regulations. However, it has been challenging to locate reliable evidence to back up this claim until now. According to a recent investigation, industry lobbying played a role in financial services businesses' exclusion from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Europe's rule governing responsible supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exclusion of investors from EU legislation has been sharply denounced by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights<\/a>. The paper highlights the considerable resistance to the measures from the French insurers' association, the Association des Assureurs Mutualistes (AAM), and the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana. This is true even if AAM bills itself as a part of the \"social and solidarity economy\" under French law and Borsa Italiana is a member of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Company lobbying in the two years preceding the deal that exempted finance from the EU Directive's purview was examined using the \"Social LobbyMap\" technique, which was based on media stories, freedom-of-information requests, and public material. Companies frequently use their organizations to spread unfavorable messages, according to a thorough examination of the stances taken by nine businesses and 10 trade groups in France, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only France's responsible investor association, L'Association AFR, spoke in support of the law, while eight of the 10 trade associations that were examined were against incorporating the banking industry. The survey points out differences inside France, where half of corporate answers supported the rule while six out of seven groups pushed against it, even though business associations throughout Europe <\/a>tend to have the most sway over lobbying. The fact that none of the Italian businesses under investigation backed the plans highlights Italy's spectacular but ultimately fruitless attempts to stop the directive in the European Council alongside Germany. The study, however, casts doubt on the notion that businesses are inherently anti-regulation. Well-known Spanish companies, such as insurance Seguros RGA, vigorously backed the rule through in-depth lobbying as well as public declarations. Companies are encouraged by the \"Social LobbyMap\" project to match their sustainability and purpose statements with their trade associations and their public policy initiatives. Since they are typically the ones who examine the organizations they invest in, investors are viewed as essential to accomplishing this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Social LobbyMap\" approach expands upon the work of the \"Influence Map\" initiative, which started in the US and forced many US companies to withdraw from trade groups that held regressive views on climate change. It is unclear if this new study on human rights and social campaigning will have a comparable effect in Europe. Companies will be under immediate scrutiny for their stance on this legislation due to a new European Commission consultation on guidance for the CSDDD, impending lobbying regarding the Directive's transposition in member states, and a planned review within two years regarding whether finance might be brought back into its scope. Making sure that a company's actions, including lobbying, are in line with its principles is a fundamental component of responsible business. The \"Social LobbyMap\" seeks to hold companies responsible by making sure their participation in trade associations and government relations matches their professed sustainability pledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns over corporate influence on EU legislation were voiced by the European Parliament and the civil society group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in late January 2024. The security department will launch an investigation \u201con the behavior and possible security breaches of interest representatives\u201d concerning the new packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR; FPF reported), according to an internal email sent by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as reported by Politico. The CEO released a study on industrial lobbying of the European Commission over the essential use concept around the same time. In the history of the EU, the PPWR has been the most heavily lobbied political procedure.<\/a> \"Ahead of a pivotal vote in the Parliament in November, MEP Mohammed Chahim accused lobbyists of following his colleagues into the restroom or entering their offices without permission,\" Politico said. Lobbyists must abide by a code of conduct that includes a registry of people who are permitted; the persons may be struck from the register based on the findings of the inquiry.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How EU businesses lobbying influences sustainability policies","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-eu-businesses-lobbying-influences-sustainability-policies","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7306","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7296,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 07:53:45","post_content":"\n As part of a larger strategy to outmaneuver US big technologies, control global data flows, and resurrect its dormant cloud computing sector, Europe is set to embark on a protracted endeavor to establish a digital single market. The incoming European Union (EU) governing administration has made this a top priority on its agenda after acknowledging that it must alter the rules of the game since it is unable to compete. At a summit of business leaders, governmental officials, and technology specialists last week, EU officials and ministers presented their intentions. These individuals have been working to construct what has been designated as the foundation of Europe's proposed digital single market. It will now also serve as the technology foundation for the envisioned cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program, known as Gaia-X, was established by Germany's Economy Ministry ten years ago, but it has yet to accomplish its goals. Officials have determined that it is the solution to all of Europe's technological problems, and they are demanding that it begin to deliver. However, as Gaia-X and a large network of similar EU projects developed into a strategy to build dataspace computer networks that convert incompatible dataflows into ones that flow as easily as in actual commerce, EU authorities included it in ever-larger plans. Its mandate has grown to include legal and technical requirements that have become so difficult to resolve that they have halted development on what was already criticized for falling short of its goals. To establish a worldwide consensus to regulate data exchange not only inside domestic or regional markets but also in international cross-border dataflows, the European Commission (EC) has designated Gaia-X as its spearhead. Free-flowing dataflows require common laws to regulate them and identity systems to screen the individuals behind them. These are two issues that have long been a cause of fierce national conflict, with several international forums attempting to resolve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the European Parliament<\/a> accepts the new EC plan for government next week, as is anticipated, dataspaces will be integrated into it. Gaia-X will be a key component of its strategy to develop a cloud computing sector to overtake leading US tech companies, frustrate Chinese tech aspirations, and then develop a top-tier AI sector on top of that. These are some of the main components of its ambitious aim to achieve \"digital sovereignty.\" Germany was counting on Gaia-X to fulfill those ambitious objectives and make the EU economy competitive. In a video message that was broadcast during the tech company's annual political summit in Helsinki last week, Germany's economic minister Robert Habeck stated: \"Europe needs digital sovereignty.\" Given the growing significance of AI for European competitiveness, this is becoming increasingly critical. Although we have accomplished a great deal, there are still enormous expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that a \"paradigm shift\" from centralized big-tech computing to a federated system was being brought about by Gaia-X's dataspace technology. Habeck described the EU's strategy to revitalize its tech sector, which involves bringing together Europe's disparate cloud computing companies into a single, collective, state-backed computer system that is pieced together using common data standards and software, rather than constructing massive companies on par with US tech giants like Microsoft and Google or its own Volkswagen and Airbus. As a result, EU policy<\/a> will address an issue that computer scientists have been working on for decades: a universal data interconnect. \"These new regulations will have no real impact without the strong mobilization of the ecosystem of which Gaia-X is the driving force,\" French Minister delegate for Industry Mark Ferracci said in another video message, commenting on the extensive body of legislation the outgoing commission implemented under its contentious digital strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international industry groupings, where businesses have been attempting to get over legal and technical obstacles that have prevented them from modernizing dataflows in supply chains that involve foreign companies, the EU now depends on Gaia-X to plant its regulatory model. Gaia-X and its subsidiaries in vertical industries<\/a> like manufacturing and automobiles have been accomplishing just that. It has been accelerated, according to EU authorities. If Europe's data governance model isn't cross-border, it will collapse. According to Ferracci, Gaia's establishment of global collaboration is essential to Europe's mission. Additionally, if European businesses do not employ dataspace technology, their plan to create a federated single market, cloud, and AI system will fail.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EU pushes plan to challenge US big tech dominance with digital market strategy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-pushes-plan-to-challenge-us-big-tech-dominance-with-digital-market-strategy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7296","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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The EU's ambitious digital market strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The EU's ambitious digital market strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The EU's ambitious digital market strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The EU's ambitious digital market strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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