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There are few areas in tech policy where the waters are so muddied as those swirling around net neutrality. That's as true for the E...

I've been trying to fathom what exactly Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital A...

It's been a while since I wrote about net neutrality, but of course it's never gone away as an important theme. Indeed, it was i...

As Techdirt has reported over the last ten days, the death of Aaron Swartz has provoked an outpouring of grief from friends and colleague...

I have a lot of time for Neelie Kroes , Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital Agenda. She's...

Neelie Kroes has emerged as perhaps the most Net-savvy politician in the European Commission, with her repeated calls for a new approach ...

Neelie Kroes is not your average European Commissioner. Before she became the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, her current post,...

Neelie Kroes gave a keynote speech at this year's re:publica conference in Berlin (disclosure: I spoke there too) that brought toget...

Since SOPA and PIPA are US bills, the focus has naturally been on the US response to them – notably in the list of major sites that parti...

As readers of this blog will have noticed, open data is particularly hot at the moment. Whether that will endure is another matter, but f...

The Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, Neelie Kroes, recently made quite a stir when...

Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright syst...

Neelie Kroes is that rare thing: a politician who actually seems to understand digital technologies. Before she became the European Comm...

The European Commission looms large in these pages. But despite that importance, it remains - to me, at least - an opaque beast. Hugely-impo...

A little while ago I wrote about the worrying signs that the imminent Digital Economy Agenda, currently being drawn up by Neelie Kroes, was ...

Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent...

Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, had some news this morning: Today is an important day for internet users in Euro...

Predictably, the EU's announcement that it would be conducting an "in-depth investigation into proposed takeover of Sun Microsyste...

Looks like Neelie really gets it these days: “I know a smart business decision when I see one — choosing open standards is a very smart bus...

I could feel it in my bones: the great victory of the EU over MS is a sham. Here's why. Ex-steely Neelie - to be renamed wheeler-deal...