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Reding Plays Hardball Over Telecoms Regulation

So Commissioner Viviane Reding has decided to play hardball over telecoms reform. Some weeks ago we discussed how the Commission’s proposed telecoms package would hand over extensive new powers to Brussels.
The European Parliament watered down these proposals in first reading, but it seems that the revised version to be sent to the Council gives little [...] Read Post »

Untrammelled Power for Commission in Telecoms Regulation?

Nobody knows where the IRG begins and the ERG ends, Commissioner Reding complains to the European Parliament. 
You can see just how irritated the Commission is that the Independent (telecoms) Regulatory Group (IRG) with 31 European members should have been registered as a private company under Belgian law, to do things which (she believes) [...] Read Post »