Every year, during the September Plenary Session, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presents her State of the European Union speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg. During her annual speech, the President takes stock of the achievements of the past year and presents the Commission’s priorities for the year ahead. This year, in light of the unprecedented geopolitical situation Europe finds itself in, von der Leyen’s speech was dominated by topics such as Ukraine, democracy, energy...

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SkyLink, Blue Sky Network’s 2x award-winning connectivity platform, is now DO-160G qualified for aviation | August 30, 2022 – SAN DIEGO – Blue Sky Network today announced that its SkyLink 7100 aviation solution has completed DO-160G qualification testing and can now be installed on crewed aircraft. Additionally, the SkyLink single-channel Iridium antenna has received FAA TSO C159d approval.  This dual-mode communications solution leverages next-generation Iridium satellite service and local 4G/LTE networks, providing aviation customers with continuous pole-to-pole coverage. To attain DO-160G...

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The Portuguese Golden Resident Visa (or “GRV”) is an immigration program that allows you to acquire residency through a qualified investment in the country. It is considered by many advisors as the best program of this kind due to the wide variety of its investments, flexible investment requirements ​​and to its limited minimum required presence in the country. This program was launched in 2012 and it has grown in popularity during its 10 years of existence: according to data from...

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Editor's Note: In the U.S. laws and regulation space, the California attorney general announced the first-ever CCPA settlement, the California Privacy Protection Agency raised objections to the ADPPA, and the FTC announced advance notice of a proposed rulemaking aimed at commercial surveillance and data security. Meanwhile, the California legislature passed the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. In U.S. litigation, Meta settled a class action over tracking and requested attorneys' fees in a data scraping suit. In international regulation and enforcement,...

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