01 Sep
Chapter News, News, Uncategorized

European Commission | Commission Designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox Under Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE), as well as Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs), under the Digital Services Act (DSA). These services declared that they reach at least 45 million average monthly users in the EU and thus meet the threshold for designation. Following the notification of the designations, these services have four months, i.e. by January 2027, to comply with the additional DSA obligations for VLOPs and VLOSEs, such...

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06 Aug
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Loyens & Loeff | EU Tax Alert – Edition 216

The new edition of the EU Tax Alert is available. With this publication we would like to keep you informed about the latest developments on EU tax law. We have summarised the highlights of this edition below. Commission proposes Taxation Omnibus to simplify direct taxation and boost EU competitiveness (Taxation Omnibus) On 24 June 2026, the European Commission published the Taxation Omnibus package, proposing amendments to six key EU direct tax directives. The initiative aims to simplify EU tax rules, reduce administrative...

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09 Jul
Member News, News, Uncategorized

ACG Resources x CILC | AI in Hiring: A Powerful Tool – A Comparison Between EU and U.S. Regulatory Approaches

AI in recruitment has already moved past the “emerging trend” phase. It is embedded in how we source, screen, rank, and engage talent. The conversation now is less about adoption and more about control: who governs it, how it is audited, and what risks businesses are actually taking on. Setting the Stage In the U.S., AI adoption in hiring has been fast, decentralized, and largely market-driven. Vendors are rolling out tools that promise efficiency—resume parsing, candidate matching, behavioral assessments—while...

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02 Jul
Chapter News, News, Uncategorized

IMF | Tokenization Can Change the World’s Financial Architecture

Policy choices will determine whether tokenized finance strengthens or fragments the financial system. Tokenization is often described as a technological upgrade enabling faster settlement, cheaper payments, and programmable assets. But it is a lot more. When financial assets and liabilities move onto shared digital ledgers, the structure of the financial system itself changes. Processes that today occur sequentially — execution, clearing, settlement —can now happen simultaneously, governed by software rather than institutional processes. Risk could migrate away from the balance sheets...

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13 Apr
Member News, News, Uncategorized

IPTI | Property Tax in the News – April 2026

IPTI’s usual monthly newsletter – the “President’s Message” – contains, inter alia, some summarised news articles from around the world. This IPTI publication – “Property Tax in the News” – contains some of the more interesting news articles concerning property taxes in North America and Europe which is where many of our members have a particular interest. Links to these and more, similarly summarised, articles – from North America, Europe and around the globe – can be found in...

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20 Feb
Member News, News, Uncategorized

EIB | European Promotional Institutions and European Investment Bank Group to Accelerate Investment and Strengthen Europe’s Competitiveness, Resilience and Security

The leaders of Europe’s largest national promotional banks and institutions BGK (Poland), Caisse des Dépôts – CDC (France), Cassa Depositi e Prestiti – CDP (Italy), KfW (Germany), Instituto de Crédito Oficial – ICO (Spain), and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, whose combined 2025 financing amounts to more than €300 billion, met today in Munich to reaffirm their shared determination to boost investment, competitiveness and resilience across the European Union and build on more than a decade of close...

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11 Feb
Chapter News, News, Trade & TTIP Related, Uncategorized

European Commission | Speech by President von der Leyen at the European Parliament Plenary Debate on Urgent Actions to Revive EU Competitiveness, Deepen the EU Single Market and Reduce the Cost of Living – from the Draghi Report to Reality

Thank you, Madam President, dear Roberta, Deputy-Minister Raouna, dear Marilena, Honourable Members, In the last plenary, we focused on the geopolitical shockwaves that Europe is facing and on our united response. But our power on the global stage depends greatly on our strength on the economic front. Competitiveness is not just the foundation of our prosperity but of our security, and ultimately of our democracies too. This is why competitiveness has been at the top of our agenda from day one. At...

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06 Feb
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AlixPartners | Five Scenarios that Change the 2026 Retail Game

Uncertainty is baked into the 2026 outlook for retail, which remains one of the most disrupted industries. For all the predictions over how the industry will change, a state of permacrisis makes it challenging to act decisively—no one knows where tariff policy or geopolitical conflict will land months from now—but retailers cannot wait for the next shoe to drop. Many pundits and prognosticators make bold and often binary predictions for the retail market ahead.   Our point of view is that...

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11 Dec
Member News, Uncategorized

Wilson Sonsini | CJEU Rules on Online Marketplaces’ Liability for User Content Under the GDPR

On December 2, 2025, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in X v Russmedia Digital SRL (C-492/23), ruled that the operator of an online marketplace, as a data controller, is responsible for the processing of personal data contained in advertisements published on its platform, and cannot rely on the hosting liability safe harbor to avoid responsibility for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) infringements arising from unlawful processing. The decision departs from long-standing case law on the liability of hosting service...

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10 Dec
Member News, Uncategorized

Trepp | Too Late to Catch a Flick?

The big news in the mergers and acquisitions world late last week was Netflix Inc.'s agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. in a deal valued at $82.7 billion. The acquisition would create an entertainment behemoth, if it passes regulatory muster. Netflix would come to own the Sopranos, Big Bang Theory, and Game of Thrones franchises. More importantly to those in the commercial real estate world, it would assume Warner's studio movie-making chops. And that’s where the potential headaches come up. Warner has been among...

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