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As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...

Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on whether to send its version of the Copyright Directive text to "trilogues" for fina...

A couple of weeks ago, I urged people to write to their MEPs about an important vote in the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parl...

Next Wednesday, the European Parliament will have its final vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement , or CETA. If you were h...

There's an important vote by MEPs on the ENVI committee tomorrow about CETA, the trade deal between the EU and Canada . Background on w...

TTIP is dying : According to the research, "In the United States [today], opinion is split, with 15 percent in favour [of TTIP] and...

I first wrote about the importance of open clinical trials two years ago. More recently, I urged people to contact their MEP s for a cruc...

Earlier this month I wrote a couple of posts about a letter I sent off to the European Commission concerning my appalling experience wit...

Sorry to trouble you again this week, but there's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TA...

Back in February, I noted that the UK' s investigation into making clinical trial data freely available was somewhat subsidiary to th...

There's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TAFTA/TTIP), and there are some crucial issu...

Last week I wrote about the revelation (to me, at least - maybe other people knew this was going on) that MEP s were simply cutting and ...

Back in July, I warned about the imminent threat of software patents sneaking into Europe thanks to horse-trading over the proposed EU U...

Well, we did it: ACTA was resoundingly defeated in the European Parliament yesterday by 478 votes to 39, with 165 abstentions. That'...

In a plenary vote today, the European Parliament has rejected ACTA by 478 votes to 39 , with 165 abstentions. That followed a failed attem...

If you watched the stream of the plenary session in the European Parliament yesterday, you will know that what we saw was an incredible p...

Well, never a dull moment in the world of ACTA. After I wrote yesterday's column summing up what I thought was the final state of pl...

As Techdirt has reported over the last few months, the passage of ACTA through the European Union's approval process has been little s...

So, here we are: the final decisive week that is likely to determine the fate not just of ACTA, but also the course of digital copyright l...

Once more, there's good news on the ACTA front. Today, the important European Parliament committee responsible for handling internatio...