On Monday 11 January, the members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) approved the interinstitutional agreement reached on 10 December (see EUROPE B12620A11) on removing online terrorist content within an hour, by 54 votes to 13, with one abstention. The Greens/EFA group warned last week that it would vote against the text.
The regulation, which needs to be definitively adopted by the Council of the EU, will enable terrorist content to be removed within an...