Here’s my top three:
ISO
As shown by the multiple irregularity claims, ISO is to be considered largely irrilevant.
Whereas in the past it has been assumed that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be considered for use within government, clearly this position no longer stands.
– CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION (Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Paraguay)
OIN
Although I’m still not sure that TomTom paid more than a dollar to Microsoft, the TomTom settlement made clear (or, at least, apparent) that OIN is not that useful.
No linux defenders in the city at the moment – please call again later.
EU ( new! )
EU commission’s opinion didn’t prevent France to approve their new Internet Censorship act. As Internet is a innovative market, let’s innovate even more by sanctioning citizens without the need of bothering a judge.
Glyn Moody writes
“France’s ‘Loi Hadopi’ — better known as ‘three strikes and you’re out’ — was passed by the National Assembly late last night when only 16 deputies were present (the vote was 12 in favor, 4 against). Most politicians had left because it was expected that the vote would take place next week. In this way, President Sarkozy has sneaked his controversial legislation through the French parliament — and shown his contempt for the democratic process. So now what?”
[ Slashdot ]
Do you have any addition to share ? 
The Netherlands
Europe is usually a frontrunner in open technology, for example: Firefox has a greater market share here than in the US and the EU has got it’s on open source license, the EUPL, under which it publishes some of its software. The French assembly and gendarmerie use Ubuntu.
The Netherlands however seem to fall behind the trend of slowly moving to open standards. If I’m correctly there are even more IE users in the Netherlands than in the US. Furthermore the Windows OS is very popular and people tend to be afraid of anything that’s free. Maybe it has to do with our history as being the world’s merchants, but Dutch find it hard to trust something that’s free. I think there is no country in Europe where companies have so close ties with Microsoft via contracts.
The government does encourage the use of open standards and has made it mandatory for the government, but some organisations manage to work around this by saying OOXML was approved by the ISO as an open standard or by saying they can really don’t do without proprietary standard X, which is a valid argument.
We’re worse than the US.