Our take on the latest developments.
This year's State of the Union address by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, focused on three topics related to the digital policy - AI, social media use for minors, and briefly, addictive design and the upcoming Digital Fairness Act.
The expansion of the open-source AI ecosystem could be a boon for the EU's efforts to promote tech sovereignty.
Europe can have sovereign AI to achieve its goals for security and safety, but it needs to boost open source to make it happen.
The French Constitutional Council has blocked the law prohibiting minors under 15 from using social media and digital services; however, the needle may move in Brussels this fall if the EU member states agree on EU-wide rules that may trump the local law.
The German digital rights group filed a criminal complaint against Meta/Ray-Ban smart glasses, raising concerns about proportionality, applicability of the very same idea in other EU Member States, and existing issues with law enforcement.
Poland's feud with SpaceX over Starlink pricing posed reputational risks to SpaceX in Eastern Europe; however, Poland's reinstatement to the European region for Starlink roaming services ended speculation that the previous move was targeted at Ukraine.
The EU has a difficult task ahead: facilitating the use of AI across the public and private sectors, while ensuring that EU funding does not spark a wave of “AI-washing” projects, similar to the “innovation-washing” projects of the past - where funding fails to yield tangible outcomes.
As global policymakers rush to regulate online child safety, the focus remains on platform accountability, design, and age-verification solutions. Yet major gaps persist: technical bypasses, data privacy risks, and the missing element of shared parental responsibility.
The EU has ordered Google to share its search data with rivals by January 2027 under the DMA. But as concerns grow over data privacy and loopholes, a new survey reveals that 71% of Europeans have no idea their data will be shared.
Orwellian outcomes at the EP: procedural loopholes made the European Parliament adopt Chat Control 1.0, extending mass communication scanning until 2028.
The AI Chamber's CEE AI Index 2026 reveals a region split in two: northern and central CEE countries are ready to lead on AI adoption, while the southern tier is still building foundations and may struggle to navigate the upcoming AI Act.
On July 1, Ireland takes the helm of the Council of the EU with 68 "priorities" spanning competitiveness, values, and security.
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