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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by Scarblac on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:09AM (#17355496)
Sure, but most of it isn't particularly interesting for EU readers. The vast majority isn't even in their own language.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by realusername on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:10AM (#17355500)
Only temporarily. A lot of publishers would be happy to increase their current market share to cover EU content. At least for English, French and Spanish, I could easily see some foreign media boosting their traffic.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by T-N-T on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:29AM (#17356290)
Propaganda organs like Russia Today already have versions translated in various European languages. They would be absolutely delighted to be the last and only piece of internet news to be available on google. Europe is shooting itself on the foot as always.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by magduf on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:24PM (#17359413)
Al Jazeera news has an English-language version, oriented towards readers in English-speaking countries.

RT is the same.

News aggregators can link to journalism sources like these without having to pay extra fees.

Of course, it might seem problematic that EU readers would get news from a Middle Eastern state-owned news source and a propaganda outlet of the Russian government, but if that's what the EU wants, it's their right to legislate that.

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