In recent years, the number of mobile payments has risen rapidly. During that same timeframe, the methodology of mobile payments has shifted from being mere monetary transactions executed by means of an interconnected network environment – such as the Internet – toward highly diverse mobile...

On 4 June 2012, the European Commission adopted a draft regulation "on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market." The proposed legal framework is intended to give legal effect and mutual recognition to trust services including enhancing...

In the last decades, the nature and scope of services offered by public sector entities has changed considerably. More recently, one can also distinguish a rising awareness of the economic potential of public sector information, in turn raising demand for the availability of such information for...

In recent years, the number of mobile payments has risen rapidly. During that same timeframe, the methodology of mobile payments has shifted from being mere monetary transactions executed by means of an interconnected network environment – such as the Internet – toward highly diverse mobile...

Broadband over CATV networks is flourishing in the EU and in some Member States it even has already made significant impact on the retail broadband market. Our article aims to provide an overview of the regulatory treatment of broadband over CATV under the electronic communications regulatory...

Cultural diversity is a multifaceted concept that differs from the notion of media pluralism. However, the two concepts share important concerns particularly as regards content production, content distribution and access to content. This chapter considers the EU’s role in contributing to...

The essay, written on the occasion of Tilburg University's Dies Natalis 2018, explores the added value of interdisciplinary collaboration for science, university, and society. It argues that interdisciplinary collaboration is a prerequisite for science to contribute to major problems – wicked...

The purpose of this article is to examine the alignment of the respective data protection and privacy, consumer protection and competition law policy agendas through the lens of pre-formulated declarations of consent whereby data subjects agree to the processing of their personal data by...

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a research tool that was designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union. This narrative report has been produced within the framework of the first pan-European implementation of the MPM carried out in 2016,...