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EU opens probe into Chinese e-commerce platform Temu

EU opens probe into Chinese e-commerce platform Temu

The Commission will look into whether the Chinese e-commerce company has failed to crack down on illegal products and addictive designs.

October 31, 2024 12:00 pm CET
China’s Shein sweet-talks EU to stave off hurdles on ‘fast fashion’ goods
Chinese fashion app Temu could face strict new EU content rules
Ireland gambles on China’s big tech billions
WTO in ‘damage control’ mode as Abu Dhabi agenda unravels
WTO boss too busy — for now — to think about 2nd term
Don’t just blame the US; India is blocking WTO reform too
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30 things Joe Biden did as president you might have missed

Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as president that you might not have heard about.

February 4, 2024 1:21 pm CET

Belgian PM faces high-wire act in China as EU, Taiwan fears intrude

Alexander De Croo will seek to balance national and EU interests during his trip to Beijing — amid strained trade ties and tensions around Taiwan’s presidential election.

January 9, 2024 6:34 pm CET

Fashion victims: France looks to save its collapsing prêt-à-porter brands

Online shopping is killing mid-market brands but the government wants to hit back and rediscover France’s fashion ‘genius.’

December 22, 2023 2:22 pm CET

How Big Tech learned to love Britain’s libertarians 

US tech giants and Britain’s free-marketers have formed an unlikely alliance.

November 23, 2023 8:00 pm CET

Europe’s online content law has teeth — now it has to bite

The Digital Services Act’s ambition to clean up Big Tech will only be as strong as its enforcement.

August 24, 2023 7:09 pm CET

Big Tech firms first in line for fines under the EU’s content law

The European Commission will soon be able to investigate and fine some of the most popular social media and e-commerce platforms under the Digital Services Act.

August 24, 2023 4:24 am CET

Why China is not as powerful as the West might think

Xi Jinping’s brand of economic policy is less and less convincing to Western companies. Politicians are waking up, too.

August 3, 2023 4:00 am CET

AI could replace you all with ‘peerbots,’ UK House of Lords warned

A noble lord even tried to write his speech using AI.

July 25, 2023 11:53 am CET

Booming Chinese shopping app faces Western scrutiny over data security

Temu is rapidly gaining users in the US and Europe, leading China hawks to warn about its risks.

July 24, 2023 12:00 pm CET
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Boosting SME digital skills is key for UK economic growth

Small businesses lag behind big firms on basic digital skills, and minority- and female-owned businesses face even bigger challenges. Programs such as Mastercard’s Strive UK aim to change this.

July 3, 2023 5:00 am CET

France to go after Chinese ‘fast fashion’ giant

‘We don’t know the social conditions under which these clothes are made,’ says Bruno Le Maire.

June 29, 2023 12:05 pm CET
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eBay’s CEO on the regulatory fate of recommerce in the EU

POLITICO Studio interviews Jamie Iannone, CEO of eBay, about how evolving EU policies around circularity could end up stifling sustainability and small resale businesses.

June 27, 2023 5:00 am CET
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Online marketplace Wish makes a comeback in France

The California-based platform had been removed in 2021.

March 13, 2023 8:43 pm CET

OnlyFans loses EU court tax battle

CJEU hits online platform — largely used by sex workers — in VAT case.

February 28, 2023 11:36 am CET

Barcelona vs. Amazon: City to tax courier vans

City wants to nudge consumers to pick up parcels instead of relying on deliveries.

February 23, 2023 4:18 pm CET
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Clinging to normalcy in time of war

In Ukraine, people are sticking to their regular routines and rituals as best they can — which can often seem surreal as the ordinary collides with the extraordinary.

November 26, 2022 4:00 am CET

France’s digital taxman goes after Amazon — again

The US tech giant scored a victory narrowing a French digital levy that lawmakers are now trying to overturn.

November 24, 2022 3:29 pm CET

Facebook parent company Meta lays off 11,000 staff

Recruiting and business teams will bear the brunt of job cuts, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

November 9, 2022 1:22 pm CET

France sets €3 book-delivery fees in jab at Amazon

The proposal is aimed at protecting brick-and-mortar shops from having to compete with Amazon.

September 23, 2022 11:29 am CET
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2.9 billion people have no internet, mainly marginalized women

Connectivity gap has become an issue of fundamental human rights, in times of crisis – humanitarian and conflict zones – and for essential needs like health care, services and education.

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Spot checks: Europe’s customs officers struggle to catch faulty goods

A surge of e-commerce in places like Alibaba’s Belgian hub has ‘changed the nature’ of trade.

August 18, 2022 12:00 pm CET
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Empowering better self-care is a shared responsibility

Global healthcare tipping point: pandemic prompted proactive behavior change toward individual health management, regulatory reliance critical to enabling expansion of self-care.

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Commission takes Hungary to court over LGBTQ+ rights, media freedom

Tension escalates between Budapest and Brussels.

July 15, 2022 1:28 pm CET

EU readies Amazon antitrust settlement

Settlement could set standard for the Digital Markets Act when it comes into force later this year.

July 14, 2022 11:45 am CET
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