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In a recent decision, the European Commission confirmed the country-of-origin principle, according to which media service providers are subject exclusively to the law and jurisdiction of their member state of establishment, irrespective of the fact that their programmes are transmitted and viewed in other member states. This decision followed a request by the Hungarian media regulatory authority (Nemzeti Média és Hírközlési Hatóság – NMHH) to apply its own rules against the Luxembourg-based media service provider CLT-UFA SA. The request, pursuant...

The complexity of the modern media ecosystem, coupled with changes in the way people access, create and share information and disinformation online, as well as AI-generated content and algorithmic curated content, has prompted the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) to explore a new approach to media literacy and digital learning. This initiative was led by Marcos Ros Sempere, a Spanish Member of the European Parliament. Following the publication of the first draft in March 2026, the parliament adopted Resolution 2025/2181(INI) on a new strategy for media literacy...

A draft piece of French legislation proposing to ban children under the age of 15 from accessing social media had prompted a formal opinion from the European Commission, stating that it overlapped with the Digital Services Act (DSA). The opinion required French lawmakers to revise the bill and negotiate a compromise between the first version of the bill, approved by the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), and the second version, adopted by the Senate. The National Assembly’s version proposed a broad ban that applied to all “social network services online provided by...

On 29 June 2026, the Council of the European Union approved the regulation amending the existing AI Act. The text was officially signed on 8 July 2026 by both the President of the European Parliament and the President of the Council, and is soon to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.  With this revised version, stronger protections for children in the context of AI have been implemented. Legislators introduced new prohibitions in Article 5 targeting certain AI practices. These provisions are set to take effect from 2 December 2026. It is now forbidden to place...

On 16 June 2026, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in Joined Cases C-188/24 (WebGroup Czech Republic a.s. and NKL Associates s.r.o. v. Ministre de la Culture and Premier ministre) and C-190/24 (Coyote System), following requests for preliminary rulings from the French Council of State (Conseil d'État). The judgment addresses several questions of broad relevance for the regulation of online services within the European Union, notably the scope of the country-of-origin principle, the conditions under which member states may impose...