Brussels, 16/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - After several days without responding, the European Commission has now chosen to break its silence: it is denying that it intends to tax hyperlinks and contrary to what the MEP Julia Reda (Greens/EFA, Germany) asserted, a spokesperson responsible for the Commission's Digital Single Market, stated “taxing hyperlinks is an absurd idea. The European Commission does not intend to do this at all”.
In a ruling on 13 February 2014 (Svensson decision), the...