Julian King (UK), the former European Commissioner for the Security Union, was perhaps a little too ambitious when he hoped, as recently as September, that an agreement would be reached before the end of the year between European Parliament and Council of the EU negotiators dealing with the draft regulation on the withdrawal of online terrorist content(see EUROPE B12231A8).
Despite the efforts it has made, the Finnish Presidency will have to abandon this objective and will pass it on to the...