EU DSM discussions logjammed
The final trilogue on the DSM Directive was delayed on Monday 21st January. It was called off on Friday evening by the Romanian presidency, after an almost 10-hour meeting of EU ambassadors. According to reports, a group of countries big enough to form a blocking minority (including Germany, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Hungary and the Netherlands) said the meeting should not go ahead because they could not approve the updated mandate, after MS representatives clashed over “whether SMEs should be subject to the filters, whether platforms should be liable for their users and how “snippets” should be defined.”
