Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy

European Law and Regulation of Mobile Net Neutrality

"For the vast majority of consumers, the horror of getting a terribly expensive bill acts as a powerful deterrent to enter the Mobile Internet ... Users expect the mobile web to be as open and easy to use as the fixed line'"Commissioner Reding, Speech/08/70(2008) Mobile is a rapidly growing and potentially major element of the future Internet, and its environment cannot be sensibly considered i...

European Union and Media : an ‘ Enlarging Role ’

Međunarodni institut “Jacques Maritain” danas djeluje u 15 zemalja na 4 kontinenta, a osnovan je prije 30 godina sa željom da se doprinese raspravama o suvremenom društvu u skladu s učenjem toga znanstvenika. Mediji su značajan čimbenik u razvoju integrirane Europe, ali i zemalja u tranziciji. Zadaća civilnoga društva, te nacionalnih i europskih institucija jest promovirati i ohrabrivati kritič...

Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering

The Debate on Net Neutrality: A Policy Perspective

Whether to legislate to maintain " net neutrality " , the current status quo of prohibiting broadband service providers from charging online websites for preferential access to their residential and commercial customers, has become a subject under fierce debate. We develop a stylized game-theoretic model to address two critical issues of the net neutrality: (1) who are gainers and losers of aba...

The Social Policy of the European Union

This paper aims at briefly analyzing the social policy of the European Union (EU), in terms of its place, purpose and objectives in the general EU policies, as well as from the legal and practical points of view. The main objectives of the employment and social policy in the EU member states are promoting full employment of people able to work, improving living and working conditions, and harmo...