IIEAMr Ilves discuss the challenges to security and democracy in the digital era and the importance of international cooperation through organisations such as the European Union.
Digital
Bruno Liebhaberg, Director General of CERRE and Chair of the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, discusses the regulation of the online economy.
Director-General Roberto Viola discusses the subject of European Digital Sovereignty and the European Commission’s plans to achieve it.
Yves Mersch discusses the role of the ECB's monetary policy measures in mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and, beyond the crisis, will identify measures to shore up the Euro-area to make it resilient for the future.
Paolo Cesarini discusses the threat of disinformation and the EU’s policy response to it, focusing on the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation, which is currently under review.
Pascal Saint-Amans of the OECD addresses the IIEA on the implications of digitalisation for taxation and will discuss how the challenges can be addressed.
Following the CJEU’s “Schrems II” judgement, which invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, Cameron Kerry of the Brookings Institution will explore the implications for transatlantic and international data transfers.
Amidst the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19, the European Data Protection Supervisor, Wojciech Wiewiórowski, discusses the role of processing personal data to fight COVID-19 while upholding privacy and data protection.
In his address to the IIEA, Juhan Lepassaar provides an overview of the EU Cyber Crisis Cooperation, also known as Blueprint and will discuss some of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic which provided an opportunity to test parts of the Blueprint and draw valuable conclusions.
Following the recent two-year anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon shares her reflections and insights on this significant piece of legislation.
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