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Digitization

Feature

US data transfer agreement: Substantial improvement or just cosmetics?

Long-awaited, now finally here: On Friday, US President Joe Biden signed presidential orders in Washington, D.C. to make way for the Privacy Shield, which failed on the EU side. The business community is hoping, the EU Commission is confident. And data protection experts consider this attempt to be ineffectual yet again.

By Falk Steiner

Feature

Commission revises liability rules – also for AI caused damage

The Commission is revising liability rules for products to make them fit for the digital age – and laying down special rules for AI. But consumer advocates fear that the hurdles are too high to bring justice to injured parties.

By Corinna Visser

Ralf-Charley Schultze ist Präsident  der International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR)
Opinion

The EU can achieve its climate targets with intermodal freight transport

Shifting freight transport from road to rail has been a goal of the European Union since 2001. However, the market share of road freight transport has been rising ever since and consequently, so have CO2 emissions. This trend can be reversed by combined freight transport.

By Experts Table.Briefings