| Draft: | European Digital Democracy: Sovereignty, Rights and Online Safety |
|---|---|
| Party: | Bündnis90/Die Grünen |
| Status: | Published |
| Tabled: | 18/11/2025, 18:24 |
| Tag: | Political |
45. Promote a fair and sustainable digital transition by ensuring interoperability between systems and platforms, preventing technological lock-in
56. New models of independent, open social networks are emerging, based on business models without data profiling, problematic algorithms, or control by billionaires. We want to create good conditions for such platforms, which offer Europeans space for free, democratic exchange and give media visibility.
7. To safeguard media diversity and democracy, the EU should pursue structural measures to address monopolies in the online advertising market. Revenues from digital advertising must be redirected to support publishers and independent journalism, rather than being overwhelmingly captured by dominant tech companies. This includes enforcing fair business models and effective copyright protections to ensure the sustainability of quality media.
8. No deregulation of the EU tech legislation in the name of "simplification" or "cutting red tape". The AI Act, the GDPR and other important pieces of legislation must not be undermined in the upcoming digital omnibus proposed by the EU Commission after heavy lobbying of the tech industry and the Trump administration.
9. Ensuring fair taxation and European sovereignty funding, making Big Tech pay what they owe, and guaranteeing that part of these revenues finances the EU
The European Green Party calls for:
1. A European strategy for digital sovereignty and transparency, including open
standards, ethical AI, radical lobbying transparency, and strict regulation of
dominant platforms.
2. Strong regulation on platform interoperability and by using opportunities to
promote opening up the social network infrastructure so users can access third-
party applications, such as recommender systems, and allowing third party
additional applications.
3.Safe and democratic digital environments must become the norm, by switching
off recommender systems by default, banning behavioural profiling of minors, and
enforcing algorithmic transparency to safeguard pluralism.
45. Promote a fair and sustainable digital transition by ensuring
interoperability between systems and platforms, preventing technological lock-in
and guaranteeing users’ freedom of choice through open standards,data
portability and security.56. New models of independent, open social networks are emerging, based on business models without data profiling, problematic algorithms, or control by billionaires. We want to create good conditions for such platforms, which offer Europeans space for free, democratic exchange and give media visibility.
7. To safeguard media diversity and democracy, the EU should pursue structural measures to address monopolies in the online advertising market. Revenues from digital advertising must be redirected to support publishers and independent journalism, rather than being overwhelmingly captured by dominant tech companies. This includes enforcing fair business models and effective copyright protections to ensure the sustainability of quality media.
8. No deregulation of the EU tech legislation in the name of "simplification" or "cutting red tape". The AI Act, the GDPR and other important pieces of legislation must not be undermined in the upcoming digital omnibus proposed by the EU Commission after heavy lobbying of the tech industry and the Trump administration.
9. Ensuring fair taxation and European sovereignty funding, making Big Tech pay
what they owe, and guaranteeing that part of these revenues finances the EU
digital strategy to strengthen Europe’s sovereignty.