Speaking to a Brussels audience yesterday evening (6 April), Oettinger insisted the upcoming copyright proposal should slide through political negotiations quickly—within a year and a half—and without being “blocked” for years in “tedious” talks with the European Parliament and member states. But the tech industry, online news publishers and MEPs are still caught up in a heated fight with the Commission over the so-called Google tax, or ancillary copyright law.
Source: Fight over ‘Google tax’ brews ahead of autumn copyright proposal – EurActiv.com