Cybercrime / Corruption / New mobility

MEPs are examining new transparency laws to combat corruption in the oil, gas, mining and logging industries, where bribes are often paid to a country’s corrupt officials while its people go hungry. Similar legislation, the Dodd-Frank law, was passed in the USA last month. I think there is a general agreement among the civilised nations that there should be no bribing and no corruption. I think it’s our moral duty to do something on this subject. Cyber-security is a myth, according to the new head of the EU’s online crime centre. He told the Special Committee on Organised Crime that there will soon be trillions of online addresses, too many to police, with 46 malicious data-stealing codes created every second. We cannot really stop cybercrime because if you look at today’s situation, in this time of financial and economic crisis, we don’t have the resources to develop researches, to develop tools and studies on how to fight cybercrime. It’s European Mobility Week, and the EP has hosted an exhibition of the latest eco-friendly alternatives in urban transport. This one is definitely unusual. It’s something between a bike and a scooter, maybe even like a car. The machines were there to look at, and try, and some people did. It’s a fantastic piece of equipment. It drives very well and with very good acceleration. Excellent! If everyone else is trying them out, I decided I should give one a test run, too. This one has an aluminium chassis. It weighs 22kg and the battery is only 2kg, the lightest on the market. We have a transmission by belt in place of a chain: no noise, no oil. Larger tyres and the autonomy of the battery is approximately 100km. We may soon see the end of the 4-wheeled personal car as a means of urban transport. This could be the future: two wheels, powered wheels, but ecologically powered. The perfect antidote, perhaps, to congestion and pollution.

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