{"id":408987,"date":"2024-11-28T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/11\/28\/geoblocking-regole-ue-francia\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:56:23","slug":"geo-blocking-eu-rules-dont-reach-beyond-europe-now-france-now-pays-for-its-grandeur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/28\/geo-blocking-eu-rules-dont-reach-beyond-europe-now-france-now-pays-for-its-grandeur\/","title":{"rendered":"Geo-blocking: EU rules don’t reach beyond Europe. Now France now pays for its ‘grandeur’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0The European Union goes beyond Europe, but EU regulations get lost in the world: this is the case with France and its overseas territories, which, because of their geographical location, are not affected by anti-geoblocking rules, meaning that it\u2019s impossible to watch TV series from one country to another.\u00a0EU institutions banned online restrictions in 2018 to avoid discrimination and create a single, harmonized market for audiovisual services on the Internet. France, however, is not alone in Europe. As many as 13 portions of French territory are located on other continents, making it impossible to implement some common rules, starting with geo-blocking.<\/p>\n

French MEPs (from Rassemblement National)\u00a0raised the case, with the European Commission forced to call for caution. First and foremost, the\u00a0geo-blocking regulation<\/a> applies “within the internal market,”\u00a0Margrethe Vestager<\/strong>, executive vice president in charge of Competition, recalled,\u00a0responding<\/a>\u00a0to MEPs.It covers the 27 EU member states and Norway, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and Iceland. Secondly, “the enforcement of the regulation is a competence of the member states, which “are required to designate bodies providing practical assistance to consumers in case of a dispute, including providing information on the applicable rules and on the available remedies.” If they do not, the Commission can take action against the state, initiating infringement proceedings.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The request coming from Rassemblement National\u00a0thus appears misplaced. From the reply provided in Brussels, the implicit suggestion is to turn to the government in Paris, on the understanding that in any case, Vestager assures, t<\/strong>he Commission “continues to monitor the implementation of this regulation<\/strong>, which is due to be reviewed in 2025, and to work with national authorities to address any instances of non-compliance.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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France and its overseas territories\u00a0[photo: Superbenjamin, Wikimedia Commons]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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France is not just ‘the Hexagon,’ the nation nestled into the Old Continent. Outside Europe, there are 13 French extensions with varying status. Five (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, R\u00e9union, and Mayotte) use the\u00a0euro<\/strong>, the European Union’s single currency, while the others use the CFP Franc. Birth in one of these French territories confers French citizenship by right and, consequently, the status of EU citizens. However, the geographical location makes it hard to extend European regulations as far out as the old colonies.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In short, there is a price to pay for the French grandeur<\/em>, the ambition of power expressed through territorial expansion. In France’s case, this clashes with the very nature of global power. Followers of Le Pen realize this with the anti-restriction rules to access online\u00a0TV series and movies. One must choose: either go on vacation to New Caledonia or Martinique or stay in Paris to watch one’s favorite series.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the overseas territories of the R\u00e9publique, restrictions on access to audiovisual content remain. RN MEPs protest but Vestager says: “Rules apply to the single market.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":241586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26261,25746,29835,27566,29645,29836,25788,27567],"class_list":["post-408987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-services-audiovisual-en","tag-onfilm","tag-geoblocking-en","tag-territories-doltremare-en","tag-market-unique-en","tag-streaming-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410132,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408987\/revisions\/410132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}