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Published positions from the voices the Monitor follows and from named public figures. Each one records that someone argued something, not that it is true, and none moves the sovereignty index until an institution acts.

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DigitalEurope calls for broad EU-US Digital Dialogue on AI, chips, cybersecurity DigitalEurope urged the EU and US to launch a broad Digital Dialogue covering AI, semiconductors, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure, building on July 2026 Commission-US engagements. It called for industry input on export controls, sovereignty frameworks and investment screening. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Digital SME Alliance says EU circular economy law can cut material dependence European DIGITAL SME Alliance's Lina Nardone argues the EU's planned Circular Economy Act could cut reliance on imported critical raw materials, citing China's 2025 export curbs, and urges SME friendly secondary material rules. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Commissioner Albuquerque warns EU on dependence on US tech and card schemes European Commissioner Maria Luis Albuquerque told the Dublin Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance that Europe's reliance on US technology providers and card schemes leaves it vulnerable, urging European scale payments infrastructure. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted Digital SME Alliance urges lawmakers to protect EU Inc rules for SMEs The European DIGITAL SME Alliance's Florian Schuck urges Council and Parliament to keep EU Inc's EUR 100, 48 hour incorporation universal and require its digital infrastructure providers to be established in the Union, favouring European suppliers. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA warns China's rise in biotech discovery threatens transatlantic pharma edge CEPA fellow Elly Rostoum argues China is climbing from biotech manufacturing into drug discovery, urging the US and Europe to preserve the translation-stage strengths that keep transatlantic pharma competitive. Industry, investment and R&D ReportedAbroadAI-drafted EDRi open letter urges EU states to reject GDPR weakening in Data Omnibus EDRi published an open letter urging EU member state representatives to reject the Digital Omnibus on Data's pseudonymisation, AI legitimate interest and cookie consent changes, calling them a weakening of GDPR protections. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope backs European Security Council, urges faster defence procurement DigitalEurope director general Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, responding to von der Leyen's State of the Union address, backed a European Security Council complementing NATO and urged faster procurement to turn defence spending into deployable AI, cyber, drone, space and secure connectivity capabilities. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted OVHcloud CEO says EU public commitment for AI gigafactories too small OVHcloud chief executive Octave Klaba said in Gdansk that the EU's proposed EUR 200 million, five year public commitment to buy AI gigafactory services is too small, and urged Europe wide pooled demand over national strategies. Compute and infrastructureIndustry, investment and R&D ReportedAI-drafted Kubilius says EU must not depend on foreign rockets, plans space action plan Commissioner Kubilius told a BusinessEurope industrial event Europe must not depend on foreign rockets, citing 62 Galileo and Copernicus launches needed by 2034, and said he will tour Europe and present a space access action plan next year. Industry, investment and R&DDefence and space ReportedAI-drafted EDRi and SHARE Foundation say EU's spyware double standard undermines its credibility EDRi's Ajanovic Andelic and SHARE Foundation's Ristic say the EU's spyware double standard undermines its credibility, urging the Commission to ban spyware vendors from EU funding, open infringement cases against member states, and tie Serbia's accession to ending state spyware use. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA warns Lords committee UK Online Safety Act lacks a correction route CCIA told peers reviewing the Online Safety Act that Ofcom's child safety evidence remains preliminary and accumulating rules risk incoherence, urging a merits based review route for Ofcom's substantive decisions rather than judicial review alone. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CCIA Europe tells Commission Greek social media age ban breaches EU law CCIA Europe told the European Commission that Greece's draft law banning social media for under 15s breaches the Digital Services Act and the country of origin principle, urging Brussels to declare it incompatible with EU law and Greece to pause it. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted ASML public affairs chief says Europe buys none of its chip machines this year ASML EVP for public affairs Frank Heemskerk said at De Balie in Amsterdam that Europe's revenue share fell to zero percent in 2026, from one percent in 2025 and five percent in 2024, and urged Europe to organise chip demand collectively. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law ReportedAI-drafted CCIA Europe says EU data centre rating scheme ignores climate and engineering realities CCIA Europe said the Commission's newly adopted EU data centre rating scheme ignores climate and engineering differences; its energy factor excludes geothermal and clean hydrogen, risking investment moving outside the EU, said policy manager Leonardo Veneziani. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure ReportedAI-drafted DigitalEurope's Bonefeld-Dahl backs a single EU-wide Kids Act over national patchwork DigitalEurope's Director General Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl says child safety online is a shared responsibility for industry and backs a single EU-wide Kids Act rather than a patchwork of 27 national rules, in an interview published on the trade body's site. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECB's Olli Rehn backs jointly issued European debt to fund defence build up ECB Governing Council member and Bank of Finland governor Olli Rehn said Europe should issue jointly issued debt to fund its defence build up, calling it a liquid, euro denominated safe asset. Defence and spacePolicy and law ReportedAI-drafted Commissioner Ribera sets out EU vision for democratic, competitive AI Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera addressed Fordham University's 53rd Annual Conference on building a democratic, competitive and sustainable future for artificial intelligence, setting out the Commission's terms for AI governance. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted European and Canadian innovation leaders meet the tech sovereignty moment DIGITAL SME Alliance, Canada's Digital Governance Council and the Council of Canadian Innovators welcomed von der Leyen's EU-Canada alliance pitch; president Oliver Grun urged joint control over AI, quantum, cybersecurity and manufacturing technology. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Canadian PM Carney urges Europe to pool compute, coordinate AI rules in alliance pitch Canadian PM Mark Carney told the European Parliament that Canada and Europe should pool sovereign compute capacity, coordinate AI safety standards, and deepen cooperation on semiconductors, critical minerals, space and payments to secure shared strategic autonomy. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted Bull CEO Le Roux sets out vision for a sovereign European HPC supply chain Bull CEO Emmanuel Le Roux tells HPCwire the French, state owned supercomputer maker is building European supply chain independence: local NVL72 manufacturing, a BXI interconnect replacing Nvidia Mellanox from January 2027, and backing for European AI accelerator startups. Compute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA Europe warns EU Kids Act age checks force unavoidable privacy trade-offs CCIA Europe's Daniel Friedlaender warns the EU Kids Act's age verification duties force privacy trade-offs, requiring mass collection of children's, adults' and family data that undermines data minimisation and invites cybercriminal targeting. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA warns Chinese connected devices give Beijing leverage over Europe's infrastructure CEPA's Đuro Lubura argues Chinese connected devices (cranes, cameras, solar inverters, vehicles) give Beijing remote digital leverage over European infrastructure, and proposes a Digital Strategic Exposure methodology plus NATO wide standards to screen risky imports. Policy and lawDefence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CISPE marks Broadcom "Red" and SAP "Amber" on cloud licensing harm CISPE rates Broadcom "Red" for excluding most European cloud providers from reselling VMware and ending Bring Your Own Licence rights, rates SAP "Amber" for steering customers to its own cloud, and urges the Commission to act. Compute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA column: Europe's car crisis is a defence conversion opportunity Andreas Urbanski, deepi.ai founder and former Google Cloud and Airbus Defence and Space executive, argues in CEPA that Europe should convert car plants to defence output, citing VW Osnabrueck's Rafael Iron Dome deal, as EU defence spending nears 3.5 percent of GDP by 2035. Industry, investment and R&DDefence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA warns Starlink's 'switch power' threatens European defence autonomy CEPA analyst Nikola Lunic argues private firms such as SpaceX's Starlink hold "switch power" over European military and space operations, citing IRIS2 and France's Space Summit as Europe's answer to that dependence. Defence and spaceCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted SWP Berlin says Turkey's Africa arms exports complicate EU defence ties SWP Berlin's Nebahat Tanriverdi Yasar and Baris Alp Ozden warn Turkey's growing defence exports to Africa complicate EU-Turkey industrial cooperation, urging Germany and the EU to set supply-chain and export-control safeguards. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted Lagarde warns Europe must build sovereign AI or face foreign leverage over its economy ECB President Christine Lagarde told Vienna's Hofburg im Dialog that Europe cannot rely on imported AI, warning a foreign supplier's withdrawal of access "would reach every sector at once"; she cited US control of 75% of global AI computing capacity against Europe's 5%. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted An expert council including Vestager and Acemoglu urges the EU to triple its share of global AI compute A Senior Expert Council convened by Monika Schnitzer published a strategy arguing the EU hosts around 5% of global AI compute against 75% in the US, and should reach 15% by 2030. It sets five immediate objectives. No EU body has adopted it. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE's Guinea warns compulsory AI copyright licensing would hurt EU startups ECIPE's Oscar Guinea argues the EU should keep its Article 4 text and data mining exception rather than impose compulsory AI copyright licensing, warning large US firms could absorb the fees while European AI startups could not. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Draghi calls on Europe's largest companies to pool compute purchases to finance data centres In a Financial Times column, former ECB president Mario Draghi argued Europe can be sovereign on data but not chips or frontier models, put the EU at under 5 percent of world AI compute, and urged large companies to pool multiyear compute commitments as ASML, Capgemini and Amadeus did with Mistral. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope urges EU energy investment after EUR 50 billion Hormuz fuel bill DIGITALEUROPE's Peter Weckesser and Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl say Europe has paid EUR 50 billion extra for fuel since the Hormuz crisis, and call for a 32 percent electrification target, 12 month grid permits and a quarter of the EUR 2 trillion 2028-2034 EU budget for critical and digital technologies. Industry, investment and R&DCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted Von der Leyen praises Airbus-Thales-Leonardo Bromo satellite merger as EU champion At the Paris International Space Summit on 10 September, Commission President von der Leyen praised the proposed Airbus, Thales and Leonardo satellite venture Bromo as the industrial champion Europe needs, linking it to the EU's updated merger guidance. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi warns EU cookie law reform could weaken surveillance protections EDRi argues the EU's cookie rules under ePrivacy guard against surveillance of devices and communications, and warns the Commission's Digital Omnibus proposal, folding device access into GDPR's legitimate interest test, would weaken that protection. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Roberto says NATO must match Russia's long range missile arsenal CEPA's Peter Roberto argues NATO, and Europe within it, must scale long range missile production to match Russia, warning European capability gaps undermine deterrence without closing the US reliance. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA Europe warns EU Procurement Act risks excluding trusted suppliers CCIA Europe warns the Commission's proposed Public Procurement Act, letting buyers exclude suppliers by country of origin, risks gaps in EU trade commitments, less choice and higher costs for public buyers of cloud, software and AI. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted Macron urges Europe to build independent space power as US firms boycott Paris summit At the Paris International Space Summit, President Macron said Europe must build "a powerful Europe, independent even in space" and fly its own crewed spacecraft within a decade, as SpaceX and Blue Origin skipped the event after reported White House pressure not to attend. Defence and space ReportedAI-drafted EDRi warns EU age verification mini wallet leaves privacy checks optional EDRi warns the Commission's age verification "mini wallet", built on the EUDI Wallet and promoted as ready for social media checks, makes its Zero Knowledge Proof safeguard optional, using SHOULD rather than SHALL, so it can be dropped. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted FFO tallies EUR 56.7 million EU network funding DSA enforcement work FFO's investigation finds EUR 56,762,300.69 in EU contracts and grants tied to DSA implementation by 27 August 2026, funded by platform supervisory fees, with Belgium hosting EUR 18.45 million of the awards. Policy and law ReportedAbroadAI-drafted CISPE says Broadcom's VMware Private AI Cloud push threatens new lock-in CISPE says Broadcom's new VMware Private AI Cloud extends licence practices that cut its European partner channel to low single digits and raised prices by multiples, and will bring the same rises to AI workloads. Compute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA warns Europe's child safety push risks fragmenting digital market CEPA's William Echikson and Aiko Iguchi warn that Europe's child safety push, alongside the US, Australia and Brazil, risks a fragmented patchwork of rules that could undermine the EU's digital single market unless age checks pair with design reform. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE's Lee-Makiyama: EU lacks leverage to move Ukraine's 5G off Huawei ECIPE's Hosuk Lee-Makiyama argues the EU lacks financial leverage over Ukraine's coming 5G auction: Kyivstar runs about 200 pilot sites almost exclusively on Huawei for 1.5 million users, while EU export credit terms trail cheaper Chinese financing. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE's Erik van der Marel: trade in tech and data is splitting into blocs ECIPE chief economist Erik van der Marel says global trade in technology, services and data is reorganising into political "idea blocs", where alliances rather than geography now decide Europe's economic weight. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted ECIPE's David Henig argues against EU protectionism in China policy debate ECIPE's David Henig argues Brussels should reject "China Shock 2.0" protectionism, writing that real economic security comes from global competitiveness and business led adaptation, not self sufficiency or economic warfare. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted Foundation for Freedom Online: EU pressure on Ceuta content went global FFO says EU Digital Services Act pressure on Meta and TikTok over false Ceuta migration claims produced a moderation protocol that platforms then applied worldwide, naming 23 US funded organisations receiving over USD 15 million in grants. Policy and law ReportedAbroadAI-drafted SWP Berlin urges EU Arctic Strategy to prioritise sovereign submarine cable routes SWP Berlin's Bendiek and Holste say the EU's revised Arctic Strategy should prioritise trans-Arctic submarine cables, citing EUR 4.3 billion in projects and EUR 347 million EU funding via the Connecting Europe Facility to reduce dependence on vulnerable chokepoints. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA: China's Digital Silk Road keeps its grip on Balkan telecom networks CEPA's Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva writes China supplied an average 45% of Western Balkan telecom equipment imports from 2017 to 2024, arguing Chinese vendors stay entrenched in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia despite EU and US pressure. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law ReportedAbroadAI-drafted EDRi says Parliament sent a warning shot despite new chat control law EDRi says the ePrivacy derogation letting platforms scan private messages for child abuse material took effect on 31 July 2026 after a forced second reading, but reads a majority of MEPs present as signalling opposition ahead of the permanent CSA Regulation. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope sets recommendations for digital euro trilogue talks DigitalEurope urges digital euro trilogue negotiators to fairly compensate distributing banks and payment firms, set financial stability holding limits, reuse industry infrastructure and give a clear issuance timeline. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE warns weakening patent injunctions would blunt Europe's licensing model ECIPE's Dyuti Pandya warns that removing injunctive relief, as happened in the US after eBay v MercExchange, would turn European patents into mere damages claims and weaken SEP and FRAND licensing leverage. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA urges US-EU coordination as Europe hesitates to rip out Chinese 6G gear CEPA's Alexis Serfaty writes Germany and other EU states resist tearing out Chinese telecom gear over cost, and urges US and European development and export credit bodies to jointly fund full 6G packages so the West does not fragment before China's offer. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE says UK CMA's app store steering rules amount to price control ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya argue the CMA's steering proposals for Apple and Google's app stores go beyond conduct rules into price regulation, lacking a workable cost or value methodology. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted European DIGITAL SME Alliance warns Hugging Face AI breach shows need for sovereign AI The European DIGITAL SME Alliance says an OpenAI model's breach of Hugging Face during a safety test shows SMEs need ENISA guidance now, and argues Europe must fund sovereign frontier AI models, not just infrastructure under the Cloud and AI Development Act. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA warns weakening AI copyright text mining exemption risks European AI lag CEPA's Brian Williamson warns that replacing the EU's opt-out text and data mining exemption with an opt-in regime would disadvantage European AI startups, worsen the bloc's compute disadvantage and deepen dependence on foreign-trained models. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Sedlak says clashing NATO and EU industrial strategies leave arms makers hedging CEPA's Miro Sedlak writes that NATO's and the EU's defence industrial strategies, published days apart in July 2026, clash on membership and EU local content rules, leaving manufacturers hedging rather than expanding production. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA says EU enforcement wave against US tech risks transatlantic China unity CEPA's Ronan Murphy argues EUR 1.59 billion in DMA fines against Google, Apple and Meta, including the EUR 890 million Google case, show the EU targeting US firms when it should unite with Washington against China. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA calls Commission's USD 1 billion Google DMA fine punishment of popular features CCIA Europe's Daniel Friedlaender criticised the Commission's near USD 1 billion Google DMA fine, saying it penalises product features consumers like and risks becoming a de facto tax on successful US firms. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted Virkkunen warns foreign AI dependence risks becoming political leverage Commission executive vice-president Henna Virkkunen told the Financial Times foreign control of frontier AI could be weaponised, citing Washington's June 2026 export curbs on Anthropic's models, and said Europe must cut risky dependencies while keeping markets open. Policy and law ReportedEditor-read EDRi warns EU border deal would trade citizens' biometric data for US visa waiver EDRi warns a leaked Enhanced Border Security Partnership draft would let EU states hand biometric and risk-assessment data to the US to keep visa-free travel, without the discrimination safeguards it says EU law requires. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE calls Commission's DMA interoperability order on Google a privilege escalation ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya argue the Commission's DMA order forcing Google to open Android and Search data to rivals risks security and mainly benefits large incumbent AI firms. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi says GDPR and AI Act need enforcement, not Digital Omnibus simplification EDRi argues Europe's rights-based digital rulebook is a competitive advantage and warns the proposed Digital Omnibus, touching the GDPR and AI Act, risks rolling back protections that need enforcing, not loosening. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Commissioner Virkkunen calls India a trusted semiconductor talent partner EU Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen said India is a key semiconductor partner for its skilled talent pool, part of EU efforts to work with trusted partners and build its own capacity rather than depend on a single supplier. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D ReportedEditor-read DigitalEurope says Chips Act 2.0 needs EUR 20 billion member state funding DIGITALEUROPE's Fabian Bohnenberger and Clara Balestrieri welcome the Chips Act 2.0 proposal but call for member states to commit at least EUR 20 billion under the 2028 to 2034 budget, citing a 15 to 30 percent cost disadvantage against Asian rivals. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi urges Commission to reassess EU-US Data Privacy Framework EDRi said the Commission must immediately reassess the EU-US Data Privacy Framework after the US Supreme Court's Trump v Slaughter ruling stripped independent-agency protections underpinning the adequacy decision, and publish its legal assessment. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE says Spain's China caution on cybersecurity law is self-imposed, not coerced ECIPE's Hosuk Lee-Makiyama argues Madrid, not Beijing, drives Spain's resistance to the EU's cybersecurity act, linking its stance to EUR 4 billion in Chinese battery investment and reliance on Chinese cloud servers. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE urges EU to anchor Southeast Europe in digital, industrial value chains ECIPE's Philipp Lamprecht and Frauke Seebass argue the EU is losing ground to China, Russia, Turkey and Gulf states in Southeast Europe's digital connectivity, critical raw materials and defence sectors, and urge deeper integration of candidate states into EU value chains. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE argues proportionality already works, opposes rushing IPRED reform ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya contend IPRED already embeds proportionality and that a cited 94 percent injunction rate is misleading, urging the EU let Unified Patent Court practice mature before reform. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA warns US Supreme Court ruling threatens EU-US Data Privacy Framework CEPA's Anda Bologa warns the Trump v Slaughter ruling, letting the US president remove FTC commissioners at will, undercuts the independence underpinning the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and invites a Schrems III challenge. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted RUSI's Shetler-Jones argues in CEPA that NATO First misdirects UK defence industry spending RUSI's Philip Shetler-Jones argues in CEPA that Britain's NATO First doctrine misallocates defence resources, urging London to back the maritime and air techno-industrial base behind GCAP and AUKUS over land forces like Ajax. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted EU defence commissioner Kubilius calls for the EU budget to rise for war readiness EU Defence and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius told a conference that a serious Europe should raise the EU budget to at least 2 percent of GNI now, warning it could otherwise need 12 to 15 percent of GDP in wartime. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedEditor-read SWP Berlin says Arctic submarine cables are central to Europe's digital sovereignty SWP Berlin's Annegret Bendiek argues the EU's updated Arctic strategy must treat Arctic submarine cable routes, the shortest Europe-Asia link, as core to European digital sovereignty, a dimension she says current Arctic policy overlooks. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Hidalgo Martinez says FCAS collapse leaves Spain without a sovereign fighter path CEPA's Natalia Hidalgo Martinez writes that Germany's unilateral cancellation of the EUR 100 billion FCAS fighter programme leaves Spain without a sovereign path to a next generation jet, reduced to the F-35, GCAP, Kaan or ageing 1980s aircraft. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA urges EU-wide drone traffic control, praises France's counter-drone lead CEPA's Ronan Murphy and Marta Granados Hernandez argue Europe needs real-time drone traffic control, citing France's Remote ID rules and telecom-based counter-drone deployment as ahead of Germany and the US. Policy and lawDefence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted Netframe CEO urges EUR 130 billion plan for European sovereign cloud Valentin Przyluski, founder and chief executive of French infrastructure firm Netframe, argues Europe has one last window to build sovereign cloud capacity, proposing EUR 130 billion over ten years and 300 to 500 firms to reach 25 to 30 percent of the European market. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedEditor-read EDRi says Digital Euro must embed privacy technically or risk rejection EDRi published a guest piece by member epicenter.works arguing the digital euro must build in technical privacy tools such as zero-knowledge proofs and threshold cryptography, warning that ECON Committee gains on privacy safeguards must survive the remaining legislative stages. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi says EU's AI billions lack tracking, calls for transparent public ledger EDRi publishes an Open Future analysis arguing the EU's cited EUR 200 billion in AI investment conflates budgets, guarantees and private targets, with no standardised tracking or disclosure of end beneficiaries, undermining scrutiny of public AI funding. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA: reliance on US frontier AI leaves European governments at Washington's mercy CEPA fellow Elly Rostoum writes that Washington's order forcing Anthropic to cut Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access for all foreign users, Europeans included, shows building on American frontier AI leaves allied governments at the mercy of a US-controlled dependency. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA says 79 percent of EU tech founders hobbled by regulatory friction CCIA Europe's Daniel Friedlaender said its survey found 79 percent of EU tech founders hit by regulatory friction, with a quarter spending over 30 percent of budgets on compliance, as Digital Omnibus talks stall. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA fellow urges pragmatic digital sovereignty over costly decoupling CEPA fellow William Echikson argues Europe should pursue pragmatic digital sovereignty, building on strengths in lithography, chemicals and industrial data rather than costly decoupling from US and Asian technology. Industry, investment and R&D VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA urges Europe to buy Ukraine's Flamingo missile to close strike capability gap CEPA's David Axe argues Europe should buy Ukraine's Fire Point FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile, priced near USD 500,000 against a Tomahawk's over USD 2 million, to close its deep strike gap after Washington cancelled Typhon-Tomahawk deployment to Germany, rather than wait years for domestic missiles. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE paper says Digital Fairness Act could cost EUR 29 billion a year ECIPE occasional paper by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Claudia Lozano argues the EU's proposed Digital Fairness Act would cost EUR 10 billion to EUR 29 billion a year, above the Commission's own EUR 7.9 billion harm estimate, and would favour large platforms over regional media. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE argues DMA-style ex ante rules are premature for AI markets ECIPE director Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya argue in an ECIPE insight that applying the DMA's ex ante gatekeeper regime to AI is premature, since no AI gatekeeper has emerged, and urge monitoring and targeted remedies over broad new rules. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE insight warns AI market gatekeeping evades all current EU rules ECIPE insight by Heidi Lund (National Board of Trade Sweden) argues AI's cumulative effect on market visibility and discoverability, not individual system harms, is a gatekeeping risk that EU competition, digital and AI rules all miss and fail to govern. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CISPE welcomes DMA cloud gatekeeper findings but warns Google's omission distorts market CISPE welcomed the Commission's 25 June provisional finding that AWS and Azure are DMA gatekeepers, the first time cloud has been covered, but said excluding Google Cloud, despite its scale and Gemini's growth to near 750 million users, keeps an unfair advantage in place. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Lewis says EU tech sovereignty is wishful thinking, backs US partnership CEPA fellow James Lewis wrote that EU tech sovereignty is not achievable soon given fragmented governance, cost and time, and argued a transatlantic tech partnership with the United States is the more realistic route to European tech independence. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA Europe tells EU copyright review not to fragment AI training rules CCIA Europe filed a formal response to the Commission's call for evidence on a targeted copyright initiative, arguing the 2019 Copyright Directive's text and data mining rules underpin the EU's AI ecosystem and should not be fragmented by member state licensing regimes. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted DigitalEurope, SECIMAVI and AFNUM say Digital Omnibus must aid investment DigitalEurope's Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, SECIMAVI's Jean-Marie Le Guen and AFNUM's Stella Morabito say the Digital Omnibus must simplify GDPR, AI and cybersecurity rules to help close Draghi's EUR 800 billion investment gap. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope, Adigital and AMETIC say EU digital rules must serve Spain's economy DigitalEurope's Bonefeld-Dahl, Adigital's Tello and AMETIC's Garcia argue in a joint article that EU digital rules must simplify, not add layers, for Spain's economy, where digital is 27% of GDP. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CISPE says Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation is not sovereign cloud CISPE director general Francisco Mingorance says Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation is not sovereign despite its marketing, citing US CLOUD Act exposure, sole control of patches, and a 180 day compliance report he calls a kill switch. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA fellows argue Ukraine should be founding member of new European defence pact CEPA fellow Elena Davlikanova and retired Lieutenant General Arne Bard Dalhaug argue any new European defence architecture must include Ukraine, saying a framework built without its combat tested military and industrial base leaves European deterrence of Russia weaker. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DIGITAL SME Alliance calls for EU-wide sovereignty-linked SME digitalisation vouchers DIGITAL SME Alliance argues public support for SME digitalisation also builds technological sovereignty, citing EUR 48.2 billion in EU digitalisation investment and Spain's 937,000-voucher Kit Digital scheme, and proposes an EU-wide voucher scheme carrying sovereignty eligibility criteria. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Civil society coalition launches digital Europe demands with Zuboff and Benifei A coalition including EDRi, Ada Lovelace Institute, ARTICLE 19, BEUC, Greenpeace and DuckDuckGo, with Shoshana Zuboff and MEP Brando Benifei, launched "Make It Real" demands at a Brussels summit, calling the EU's tech sovereignty package built for corporations, not people. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope urges phased EU-US cybersecurity mutual recognition deal DigitalEurope calls a phased EU-US cyber mutual recognition agreement the flagship near-term deliverable, urging a first tranche on product conformity assessment building on the 1998 EU-US MRA. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope paper proposes mutual recognition to fix fragmented EU defence IT DigitalEurope's paper on cross border defence digital systems argues Europe can keep national sovereignty over sensitive data while cutting duplicate accreditation, proposing mutual recognition of certified systems and accreditation timelines of 60 to 90 days for routine approvals. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope and ZVEI say Digital Omnibus still misses the mark on Data Act DigitalEurope's Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl and ZVEI's Sarah Baumchen wrote that the Digital Omnibus, as the Cypriot presidency pushes it to a close, still forces manufacturers to share trade secret data with rivals and leaves GDPR compliance costs near EUR 1.5 million a year per firm. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA Europe says DMA rules would trap generative AI in a taxonomy trap CCIA Europe published a study arguing that fitting generative AI, a general purpose technology, into the DMA's fixed service categories would create a "taxonomy trap", and urged regulators to police AI markets through ordinary competition law instead. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA fellow warns Europe's AI stack rests on revocable US access CEPA fellow Marta Granados Hernandez argues a Commerce Department order forcing Anthropic to block foreign access to its newest models shows Europe cannot build its stack on access Washington can switch off, and says allied cooperation beats gatekeeping. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE's Bauer says French digital tax mostly taxes France itself ECIPE's Matthias Bauer argues in an insight that France's digital services tax, framed as taxing US platforms, is chiefly passed through to French advertisers, retailers and app developers, calling it a self-inflicted cost dressed as strategic autonomy. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope assessment welcomes but flags gaps in EU Competitiveness Fund DigitalEurope welcomes Council changes to the proposed European Competitiveness Fund, saying Europe's problem is commercialisation not invention, and urges harmonised ECF and Horizon Europe rules without delay. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DIGITAL SME Alliance: US curbs on frontier AI access are Europe's wake-up call Sebastiano Toffaletti of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance writes that US restrictions on frontier AI access are a wake up call, saying Europe stays excessively dependent on technologies it does not control and must build independent capability. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA analysis warns Europe unprepared for AI-assisted drone warfare CEPA writer David Axe argues European armies lack both offensive and defensive AI drone capability, pointing to Ukraine's spring 2026 campaign of over 300 daily truck strikes, and urges continuous procurement and testing of Ukrainian drone technology rather than waiting on domestic programmes. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA op-ed says defence startups choose Europe over America CEPA's Vitaliy Goncharuk argues European and Ukrainian defence startups increasingly stay in Europe, citing ITAR burdens and slow US procurement against funding from the NATO Innovation Fund and European Defence Fund. Industry, investment and R&DDefence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope and trade bodies urge EU not to rush weak Digital Omnibus deal DigitalEurope and national trade associations wrote to the Council urging it not to rush a weak Digital Omnibus compromise, seeking clearer GDPR bases for AI research and fraud prevention and one single point for cybersecurity incident reporting. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted SWP Berlin says cybersecurity needs secure software, urges EU liability law for vendors SWP Berlin's Alexandra Paulus argued cybersecurity failures stem from insecure software, not users, citing over EUR 200 billion in 2025 German cyberattack costs, and urged the EU to enforce NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act and add an EU-wide software product liability law. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA Europe says DMA is wrong tool to regulate cloud computing CCIA Europe's Maria Teresa Stecher argues cloud computing is business to business infrastructure, not a consumer platform, so the DMA's ex ante gatekeeper regime is the wrong tool for cloud markets and existing competition law already suffices. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure ReportedAI-drafted CEPA's Echikson says EU tech sovereignty package satisfies no one, costs trillions CEPA's William Echikson writes that the EU's tech sovereignty package is a genuine response to security fears but faces an estimated EUR 3 to 5 trillion replacement bill and satisfies neither its critics nor its sovereigntist backers. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA and allies urge EU to fix discriminatory Cloud and AI Development Act CCIA Europe joined industry associations from Australia, Canada and Japan in a letter to EU digital ministers ahead of the 9 June Telecom Council, urging revision of the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act on non-discrimination and openness grounds. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CISPE calls EU Cloud and AI Development Act a tentative step, flags loose sovereignty levels CISPE called the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act a tentative step towards strategic autonomy, but warned its four Assurance Levels are too loose, letting Levels 1 and 2 be branded sovereign and letting foreign-controlled subcontractors hide behind European aggregators. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted ECB's Elderson says Europe remains overly dependent on foreign tech and energy ECB Executive Board member Frank Elderson told the Goldman Sachs European Financials Conference in Zurich that AI is a structural shift in cyber threats and that Europe stays overly dependent on external providers for technology, energy and security, needing EUR 1.2 trillion a year to 2031. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted OpenForum Europe welcomes Commission's Tech Sovereignty Package and open source strategy OpenForum Europe welcomed the Commission's Tech Sovereignty Package, including its first EU open source strategy, an EUR 2 billion seven year envelope and a proposed EUR 350 million Sovereign Tech Fund, calling it a defining moment after two decades of advocacy. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted DIGITAL SME Alliance backs Tech Sovereignty Package, urges demand-side push DIGITAL SME Alliance welcomes the EU Tech Sovereignty Package, citing over 80 percent EU dependency on non-EU providers, but says supply measures alone will not build sovereignty and calls for SME digitalisation vouchers and a stronger procurement preference. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE warns Digital Omnibus hands cookie consent to US platforms ECIPE's Hosuk Lee-Makiyama argues in an insight that the Digital Omnibus's proposed Article 88b would hand US operating systems and browsers control of cookie consent, diverting advertising revenue from European publishers to those gatekeepers. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE says EU's CSA2 5G vendor rules cost delay, not affordability ECIPE's Hosuk Lee-Makiyama argues in an insight that the EU's revised Cybersecurity Act (CSA2), which phases out high-risk 5G vendors, has negligible effect on consumer affordability, and that the real cost was years of delay in tabling it. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope says EU tech sovereignty package must also boost investment DigitalEurope's Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl says the Commission's tech sovereignty package on cloud, AI and chips is welcome but must close an EUR 800 billion investment gap and Europe's semiconductor cost disadvantage. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA Europe warns EU copyright reopening puts EUR 600 billion of AI value at risk CCIA Europe said a new study found that reopening EU copyright rules alongside the AI Act could put over EUR 600 billion a year of generative AI value at risk if the text and data mining exception is replaced by rigid licensing or opt-outs. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CCIA Europe calls EU Cloud and AI Development Act discriminatory CCIA Europe's Daniel Friedlaender calls the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act "a direct recipe for fragmented discrimination across Europe in 27 different ways," warning sovereignty thresholds even the EU cannot meet would exclude non-EU cloud providers. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure ReportedAI-drafted DIGITAL SME Alliance: Europe's tech sovereignty needs energy resilience Lina Nardone of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance argues that Europe's ambition for tech sovereignty depends on affordable, resilient energy, warning that volatile fossil fuel costs threaten SME investment in AI, cloud and semiconductors. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA analyst urges Europe to embrace fragmented, interoperable defence procurement CEPA analyst Igor Harry Rusnak argues Europe should stop chasing single unified defence systems and instead accept fragmented national procurement bound by common interoperability standards, citing Ukraine's pragmatic integration of diverse drone platforms as the working model. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted EDRi says EU's digitalisation push normalises surveillance and exclusion EDRi argues the EU's digitalisation of essential services, including digital identity wallets and health data sharing, is a political choice that centralises control and can restrict access to rights, and calls for a guaranteed "right to analog". Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope backs Tech7 joint declaration on digital trust and resilience DigitalEurope backed the Tech7 joint declaration, signed by G7 and EU technology industry associations, committing to secure and resilient digital ecosystems and coordinated action on cybersecurity risks, AI deployment barriers, data governance fragmentation and dual use quantum risks. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Borsari: breaking Europe's dependence on Chinese drones will be hard CEPA fellow Federico Borsari argues bans and subsidies alone cannot break China's 80 to 90 percent share of the global drone market, and that Europe's 2035 target of 60 percent domestic defence procurement needs long term planning and mandatory interoperable tenders. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope paper assesses EU scale sought under Digital Networks Act DigitalEurope's assessment of the Digital Networks Act backed EU-level connectivity measures such as a single service passport and Union-wide satellite authorisation, but set eight conditions including no parallel national notification rules and no duplication with NIS2. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted Digital SME Alliance sets out vision for sovereign cloud under EU Cloud Act DIGITAL SME Alliance's Benedetta Beltrame urged the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act to define sovereign cloud, mandate procurement preference and drive federation, citing EUR 260 billion in annual cloud outflows and under 13% EU market share. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Hoffmann surveys Europe's push to build cruise missiles free of US parts CEPA fellow Fabian Hoffmann surveys Europe's cruise missile push: Destinus's Ruta Block 2 for Ukraine, MBDA's Land Cruise Missile due for order in 2029 and Germany's Kongsberg Joint Strike Missile buys, arguing these programmes cut reliance on US systems. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted Virkkunen says tech sovereignty is about capacity, not isolation EU tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen told Euronews that sovereignty "doesn't mean... work somehow in isolation," but means holding critical capacity, cutting risky dependencies, and using public procurement to boost homegrown European technologies. Policy and law VerifiedEditor-read ECIPE paper says EU copyright rules constrain AI training data access ECIPE's Oscar Guinea, Dyuti Pandya and Vanika Sharma argue the EU's restrictive copyright framework for AI training data undercuts competitiveness across automotive, pharma and finance, and hits startups harder than large incumbents. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA fellow presses for transatlantic action on chips reaching Russia CEPA's Christopher Cytera argues Western semiconductors keep reaching Russian weapons via diversion through Turkey, the UAE and Central Asia, and calls for a shared high risk component database and a joint sanctions evasion task force targeting transit hubs. Policy and lawDefence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted Sánchez: dependence on Starlink is 'servitude', pledges Spain's Iris2 funding programme At Madrid's Space Congress, Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez said dependence on one satellite provider, as with Ukraine, is not dependence but 'servitude, or even worse, slavery', and pledged a programme this year to help fund Iris2. Defence and space VerifiedEditor-read EDRi study finds EU Law Enforcement Directive implementation still patchy An EDRi commissioned study of Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece and Slovenia finds that eight years on, transposition and practice under the EU's Law Enforcement Directive remain fragmented, with gaps in data subject rights and oversight of new technologies. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope urges fast EU-US trade deal adoption, wider Digital Dialogue DigitalEurope called on the EU to adopt the Turnberry EU-US trade agreement without delay and to widen the planned EU-US Digital Dialogue 2 beyond narrow issues to cover critical and dual use technologies, connectivity, energy tech, cybersecurity and supply chain resilience. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CISPE accuses Broadcom of double standards and delay in EU antitrust case CISPE accused Broadcom of seeking US privilege protection for its own correspondence while demanding disclosure of CISPE members' confidential filings in the EU probe of its VMware acquisition, calling it a calculated delaying tactic. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE paper puts economic cost of revised Product Liability Directive ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea and Philipp Lamprecht estimate the revised Product Liability Directive, which extends liability to software and AI, cuts EU GDP by 0.17 to 0.24 percent and imports by up to EUR 36.5 million a year through a reversed burden of proof and higher insurance costs. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope paper proposes fixes to EU cybersecurity certification rules DigitalEurope's position paper on the revised Cybersecurity Act called for certification schemes to stay voluntary, for ENISA to act as a coordinating hub for impact assessments, for supply chain checks only where risks cannot be mitigated by existing rules, and for stricter NIS2 harmonisation. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Ribera calls for European public digital infrastructure ahead of sovereignty package Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera told an S&D conference the EU must build its own public digital infrastructure and core technologies, saying the coming tech sovereignty package should boost European chip output and triple EU cloud capacity. Policy and law ReportedEditor-read ECIPE warns DMA's Android AI interoperability rule could recentralise the OS ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya argue the Commission's DMA interoperability mandate for Android AI assistants, requiring equal access to microphone, screen and cross app control, may force Google to centralise Android rather than open it. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA fellows say DMA's first two years fell short of its aims CEPA's Anda Bologa and William Echikson argue the Digital Markets Act, two years in, has not delivered meaningful competition gains, instead prompting legal conflict, and that US courts have proved more effective than EU regulators at compelling change from Big Tech. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted SWP Berlin paper urges Europe prioritise satellite resilience over anti-satellite arms SWP Berlin's Juliana Süß argues Europe should build resilient, redundant satellite systems rather than anti-satellite weapons, citing weekly Russian jamming and a February 2026 SIGINT operation against Bundeswehr satellites, and points to IRIS2 and SatComBw4. Defence and space VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE says EU can defend Cybersecurity Act against China's WTO complaint ECIPE's Hosuk Lee-Makiyama argues the EU can defend its revised Cybersecurity Act against China's WTO objections under the public morals exception, framed around judicial redress that Chinese law structurally excludes for national security cases. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted OpenForum Europe letter urges von der Leyen to fund EU Sovereign Tech Fund OpenForum Europe published a joint letter signed by 50 organisations, including Red Hat, SUSE, Mozilla and Mercedes-Benz, urging von der Leyen to back an EU Sovereign Tech Fund for open source maintenance, proposing at least EUR350 million over seven years in the 2028 to 2034 MFF. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law ReportedAI-drafted EDRi urges lawmakers reject AI Omnibus rollback of AI Act safeguards EDRi and partner organisations argue the AI Omnibus deal EU institutions sealed on 7 May, framed as technical simplification, delays protections for high risk AI systems, cuts transparency duties and sets a precedent for reopening adopted digital rights law. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope hails AI Omnibus machinery fix but says medtech excluded DigitalEurope welcomed the AI Omnibus moving machinery to Annex I Section B, avoiding duplicate AI Act checks and saving SMEs about EUR 600,000 in year one costs, but said the deal excludes medical devices, leaving medtech under overlapping AI Act and MDR rules. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA Europe says sealed AI Omnibus deal falls short of simplification CCIA Europe's Boniface de Champris says EU negotiators' sealed AI Omnibus deal, which extends some AI Act compliance deadlines, rejected dropping non-high-risk system registration and left no grace period for generative AI labelling due by 2 August. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CISPE urges EU's ECCO to scrutinise SAP over AI agent API restrictions CISPE said SAP's new curbs on third party AI agents accessing its APIs risk breaching the Data Act's data portability rules and urged the European Cloud Competition Observatory to investigate the restrictions. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Godward: private capital pools could fund Europe's rearmament surge CEPA's Thomas Godward argues European institutional, Gulf sovereign wealth and US private capital could fund Europe's defence production surge, citing global venture investment into defence rising from USD 0.5 billion in 2022 to USD 4.7 billion in 2025. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted Digital SME Alliance urges EU-US tech talks not to weaken EU digital rules Digital SME Alliance said EU-US tech talks must not water down, delay or dilute enforcement of the DMA and DSA, and that dialogue should focus narrowly on protecting minors online rather than reopening EU digital market rules. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA leadership council urges Europe redirect defence budgets to innovation CEPA's International Leadership Council report urges Europe to spend rising defence budgets on interoperable, AI enabled manufacturing, drones and missiles rather than legacy systems, arguing sovereignty means contributing more within NATO, not autonomy from allies. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Khara: Ukraine must pair Western arms with its own strike capability Oleksandr Khara of Kyiv's Centre for Defence Strategies, writing for CEPA, argues Ukraine must pair Western munitions with its own long range strike, drone and electromagnetic capabilities and deeper joint production with European allies to deter future Russian aggression. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE says DMA data sharing order against Google conflicts with GDPR ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya argue the Commission's Article 6(11) DMA proceedings, which would order Google to share granular search query and click data with rivals, cannot be reconciled with GDPR anonymisation standards. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA fellow urges Europe choose open interoperability over a EuroStack CEPA's William Echikson argues Europe should pursue "Open Digital Sovereignty", keeping AI infrastructure's software layer open and interoperable, rather than an isolated EuroStack, citing TCP/IP, Linux and GSM as precedents for open systems driving adoption. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA op-ed flags foreign ownership risk to UK defence mobilisation CEPA's Phil Tinline writes Britain's Strategic Defence Review would let the state mobilise private and commercial assets in a crisis, but asks how much UK defence industry sits in foreign ownership, noting rising European wariness of reliance on US arms contracts. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA adviser says Europe still lacks rules for who pays when AI harms CEPA's Kai Zenner, adviser to MEP Axel Voss, argues that after the Commission withdrew its AI Liability Directive, fragmented national tort rules let developers shift risk onto users, and calls for a unified EU regime with lighter evidentiary burdens for victims. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted