Only 5% of EU companies ready for GDPR compliance – Alert Logic –A further 27% were not confident they will be ready by the time GDPR is enforceable in May 2018. http://www.information-age.com/5-eu-companies-ready-gdpr-compliance-alert-logic-123469223/
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s BDI industry association said on Monday it opposed new rules suggested by the European Commission to make digital companies pay more tax, saying this would create extra burdens and could worsen already-strained ties with the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump has given the European Union and six countries until May 1 to negotiate permanent exemptions from tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum.
“The proposal for an EU digital tax comes at an inopportune moment because it increases transatlantic tensions,” said Joachim Lang, managing director of the BDI industry association. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tax-digital-germany/german-businesses-worry-eu-digital-tax-will-worsen-transatlantic-tensions-idUSKBN1HN2HD