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EU Tech Commissioner softens ambitions in forthcoming telecom rules overhaul
Est. 3min"Not only size matters", Virkkunen said, contradicting her senior Commission officials.
INTERVIEW: EU missing out on Taiwanese chip investments, Taipei representative says
Est. 5minSingapore, South Korea, and Japan all have ongoing digital partnership talks with the EU. Taiwan has no such formal ties.
EU legislators ‘more eagerly awaited than ever’ at Europe’s flagship tech conference
Est. 8min"For an MEP, Vivatech is the best place to discuss Europe's role in driving innovation," said Bitouzet.
Inside Norway’s bold bid to shift EU on Shein
Est. 4min"If a Norwegian business behaved like these companies, we would fine, or ultimately, ban them," Norway's climate minister told Euractiv in an interview.
Companies could do more to combat child sexual abuse online, UK minister says
Est. 6min"We're talking about tech companies that are flying into space and making driverless cars. I believe in them and their capacity to make it possible," UK safeguarding minister said.
Unlocking EU tech sovereignty through SME power, EuroStack, and new finance
Est. 6minEmpowering Europe’s tech SMEs is essential for digital sovereignty. Nicole Verbeeck talks EuroStacks with Sebastiano Toffaletti, Secretary-General of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance.
OVHcloud CEO calls on companies to anticipate discontinuity risk with European alternatives
Est. 7minFor 25 years, we have sometimes been the Plan A, and at other times the Plan B for clients who, after testing us, decided to make us their Plan A, said Revcolevschi.
Norway to be ‘fully integrated’ member of EU’s secure communications, industry minister says
Est. 4minEuractiv sat down with Norwegian Minister Cecilie Myrseth, responsible for space policy, to discuss Oslo joining the EU’s pooled satellite capacity programme Govsatcom and IRIS2.
Proton CEO: Tech sovereignty requires demand for European services
Est. 11min"Europe needs to realise is that there is no difference between tech sovereignty and actual sovereignty," said Andy Yen.
Transparency essential for developing trustworthy AI, says Gürtler
Est. 9minAs Europe pursues innovation and competitiveness in AI, should AI be structured around human rights and sustainability; and does AI’s employment impact matter? Paula Gürtler deploys a moral compass.
Cavazzini: IMCO will have its hands full with e-commerce, enforcement issues
Est. 5minEuractiv sat down with MEP Anna Cavazzini, who has chaired the IMCO Committee in the Parliament since 2019, to speak about e-commerce goods and digital priorities this mandate.
Consolidate communications, or inertia will mean decline, says Letta
Est. 9minThe much-anticipated Letta Report on the Single Market contained many strong recommendations. Jennifer Baker spoke with Enrico Letta to discuss what he hopes for in practice, with a deep dive into telecommunications.
How European countries are implementing new cybersecurity framework
Est. 5minEU countries are implementing the updated Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2), in force since January, with varying degrees of progress. To provide an overview of the state of play, Euractiv interviewed Nicolas Sonder and Mailin von Knobelsdorff, PwC experts on cybersecurity.
How extended and virtual reality can improve medicine and surgeries
Est. 5minExtended reality has the potential to revolutionise the visualisation and planning of surgeries, medical experts already working with such tools told Euractiv in an interview.
EU AI Act ‘cannot turn away from foundation models’, Spain’s state secretary says
Est. 5minWith Europe’s AI rulebook at a delicate stage of negotiations, Carme Artigas, the Spanish Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, spoke to Euractiv about the state of play of the inter-institutional discussions. The AI Act is a legislative proposal …
Small companies are Europe’s ‘hidden champions’, digital SME alliance chief says
Est. 5minSmaller technology companies are Europe’s “hidden champions” that need to be connected to develop alternative solutions to the big tech companies, Secretary General of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance Sebastiano Toffaletti told Euractiv. For Toffaletti, there is a misconception that everything …
Europe lacks courage in pursuing digital sovereignty, cloud service CEO says
Est. 5minEU policymakers should have the "courage and fair-mindedness" to pursue a sovereign cloud and regulate American cloud providers under the EU antitrust law on digital markets, Michel Paulin, CEO of the leading French provider OVHcloud, told Euractiv in an interview.
Italy’s digital state secretary defines senders-pay initiative ‘premature’
Est. 5minRome's support for the initiative to make tech companies contribute to digital infrastructure can no longer be taken for granted, as the Italian state secretary for digital transition called any proposal on this matter 'premature' in an interview with EURACTIV.
AI the next big challenge for the digital skills gap, EU’s Schmit says
Est. 4minArtificial Intelligence and related fields like cybersecurity will further fuel the growing need for highly qualified talents and basic digital skills in the European Union, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, told EURACTIV in an interview.
Poland slams child sexual abuse material regulation as unnecessary
Est. 4minThe regulation to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online is unnecessary as there are other regulations for safety on the internet, Paweł Lewandowski, Polish undersecretary of state at the chancellery of the prime minister, told EURACTIV.
New study points to economic, geopolitical gaps in EU data strategy
Est. 5minEconomic preparedness and the geopolitical dimension of data are potential pitfalls of the EU data strategy, an economic expert told EURACTIV ahead of the publication of a new study next week. “The paper underlines how Europe is lagging behind the US …
There is no investment gap in Belgian market, telecom regulator says
Est. 4minThe head of the Belgian telecom authority, Michel Van Bellinghen, told EURACTIV he sees no need for the senders-pay initiative and criticised the Commission for trying to recalibrate Europe's telecom regime in favour of deregulation.
Child sexual abuse: leading MEP sceptical of technical limitations
Est. 5minAs the European Parliament's published its draft report on the proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the rapporteur shared with EURACTIV his vision about the key aspects of the file. Javier Zarzalejos is an influential voice inside European People's …
EU must go further to protect journalists from abusive litigation, expert says
Est. 5minThe Council's latest draft of the EU anti-SLAPP directive is significantly watered down and does not go far enough to protect journalists from lawsuits designed to harass and intimidate them, director of Article 19 Europe Sarah Clarke told EURACTIV in an interview.