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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 CEPA fellow says Europe is reactive as it sets AI rules of engagement CEPA's Elly Rostoum writes that Germany's BSI is in active dialogue with Anthropic over security risks and the Commission is weighing whether its Mythos model is high risk under the AI Act, arguing Europe must compete with China without abandoning its values. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE says Cybersecurity Act 2 mostly legalises existing 5G vendor bans ECIPE's Hosuk Lee-Makiyama argues Cybersecurity Act 2 mostly formalises 5G Toolbox decisions states already made, noting 70 per cent of installed EU 5G equipment is from trusted vendors and just seven or eight parent firms control networks still exposed to Chinese kit. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA op-ed proposes new European Security Council outside the EU CEPA's Niccolo Comini proposes a European Security Council outside the EU, with two thirds supermajority voting and no permanent seats, so Kremlin-aligned states cannot block action and Europe can decide without depending on Washington. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA Europe calls Commission's first DMA evaluation an unbalanced picture CCIA Europe's Daniel Friedlaender says the Commission's first DMA evaluation understates degraded user experience and higher SME costs, calling enforcement a procedural black box while backing the Commission's evidence based approach to interoperability. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted ArianeGroup chief Bruneau says firm is studying missile production in Germany ArianeGroup chief executive Christophe Bruneau told Les Echos and Handelsblatt the company is studying conventional ballistic missile production in Germany, saying he still believes in French German cooperation "more than ever" despite fighter and tank programme setbacks. Defence and space ReportedEditor-read CEPA fellow Nico Lange urges EU quota for sovereign defence technology CEPA senior fellow and IRIS director Nico Lange argues Europe must earmark at least 10 percent of defence procurement for disruptive, sovereign technologies, rising to 30 percent by 2030, saying the US is no longer Europe's automatic security backbone. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA Europe calls for a DMA reality check ahead of gatekeeper law review CCIA Europe's Daniel Friedlaender and Maria Teresa Stecher call DMA compliance a guessing game, citing compressed timelines and no oral hearings, and warn procedural gaps could see Commission decisions annulled by the Court of Justice. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted ECIPE policy brief urges a more proportional and predictable DMA ECIPE's Andrea Dugo, Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya publish a policy brief saying DMA enforcement has drifted from its competition goals, recommending clearer objectives, stronger evidence standards and closer alignment with GDPR and cybersecurity rules. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE paper says Europe's space policy still favours legacy champions ECIPE authors Andrea Dugo and Dyuti Pandya write Europe made 8 orbital launches in 2025 against the US's 181, its space patent share fell from 11 percent in 2000 to 6 percent in 2023, and EU space startups average USD 48 million funding against USD 317 million in the US. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted SWP Berlin paper says EU pursues open strategic autonomy in tech policy SWP Berlin's edited research paper on the "geoeconomic Zeitenwende" says the EU's pursuit of "open strategic autonomy" in digital and technology policy should reduce dependence through market completion, regulation and allied partnerships, not isolationist decoupling. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law ReportedAI-drafted EDRi says EU Digital Omnibus risks weakening GDPR and AI Act safeguards EDRi's Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal and Chiara Casati write that the EU's Digital Omnibus, framed as simplification, would weaken GDPR, ePrivacy and AI Act safeguards by shifting to corporate self-assessment. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope rejects US Section 301 overcapacity claims against EU tech industry DigitalEurope, representing 56,000 companies, told the US Section 301 overcapacity probe there is no evidence of EU economywide overcapacity, warning broad tariffs would damage transatlantic semiconductor, cloud and AI cooperation. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE warns DMA interoperability rules clash with GDPR and cybersecurity law ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Andrea Dugo argue DMA interoperability mandates override GDPR data protection defaults and widen gatekeeper systems' attack surface, warning the EU's shift to prescriptive digital rules is creating unmanageable regulatory conflicts. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA asks who will control Europe's AI driven shopping carts CEPA's Padraig Nolan warns that US built AI models from OpenAI, Google and Meta will shape agentic commerce even where payments run on European instant payment and open banking rails, urging Europe to set agent authorisation rules rather than mandates. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA analyst says quantum era is already here, not a future promise Beacon Global Strategies' Alicia Chavy writes in CEPA that quantum is already operational, not future, citing Europe's EuroQCI network and national crypto agility duties ahead of a 2035 post-quantum migration deadline. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE says DMA enforcement is redesigning markets, not restoring competition ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya say DMA enforcement now reshapes product design rather than remedying anticompetitive conduct, pointing to a Google Maps case where compliance changes raised map search queries by over 20 per cent, benefiting Google itself. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA fellows say EU Space Act cannot close Europe's launch capability gap CEPA fellows Federico Borsari and Maria-Doriana Gheorghe argue the EU Space Act, replacing 13 national laws, chiefly binds Starlink while exempting Galileo and IRIS2, yet leaves Europe far behind Starlink's fleet of over 7,000 satellites. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CISPE and industry peers warn Italy's cloud levy risks fragmenting EU market CISPE, EuroISPA and the European DIGITAL SME Alliance jointly warned that Italy's new copyright levy on cloud storage, charged per gigabyte and per user, undermines EU digitalisation and competitiveness goals and could fragment the Single Market if copied elsewhere. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA says EU Inc falls short of Europe's Delaware moment for startups CEPA's Anda Bologa argues the Commission's EU Inc proposal, offering fast, low cost registration for standardised startups, leaves cross border hiring, tax and bankruptcy law fragmented across 27 states, calling it incremental, not a unifying regime. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Axe says Iran war exposes Europe's costly, porous air defences CEPA's David Axe says Europe's reliance on USD 100 million Eurofighter Typhoon sorties and USD 1 million missiles against USD 50,000 Shahed style drones is unsustainable, urging Ukraine style layered, low cost interceptor defences. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted EuroStack paper urges Europe to organise demand, not just fund supply EuroStack Initiative argues EU industrial policy over relies on supply side subsidy and must organise demand pull, coordinated public and corporate buying of European digital infrastructure, to build a sovereign stack. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA's Cytera says Ireland and Vietnam cut chip supply chain reliance on China CEPA's Christopher Cytera argues that Ireland's chip design strength and Vietnam's packaging role make transatlantic semiconductor supply chains cheaper, safer and less dependent on China, even as Vietnam targets 50,000 design engineers by 2030. Compute and infrastructure ReportedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Bologa says Chinese cloud and telecom ties bind the Western Balkans CEPA's Anda Bologa writes that Chinese loans, telecoms, surveillance and cloud infrastructure deals across the Western Balkans, including a Montenegro university's tie to a sanctioned Jinan supercomputing centre, lock in vendors and complicate EU accession. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law ReportedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA report says EU Space Act could cost Europe up to EUR 52 billion a year CCIA Research Center, with LAMA Economic Research, says the draft EU Space Act could raise LEO satellite manufacturing costs by 10 to 46 percent and cut EU GDP by up to EUR 52 billion a year through 2030. Industry, investment and R&DDefence and space ReportedAI-drafted DigitalEurope calls for narrower Critical Raw Materials Act obligations DigitalEurope argued the Commission's proposed Critical Raw Materials Act amendments are disproportionate, urging a 0.2 kilogram threshold on supply chain mapping, flexible mitigation timelines and no new labelling mandates for industry. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Hidalgo Martinez: US pressure is making Europe less compliant, not more CEPA's Natalia Hidalgo Martinez argues US pressure for higher defence spending is making Europe more autonomous, citing Germany's rise to the world's fourth largest military budget at USD 107 billion and Denmark's pick of SAMP/T over Patriot. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Bukowski examines splits over EU's Made in Europe manufacturing rule CEPA's Maciej Bukowski examines the Commission's Industrial Accelerator Act and its 20 percent manufacturing GDP target for 2035, noting Nordic and German pushback for "Made with Europe" wording instead. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA says UK keeps world's worst AI copyright regime by shelving reform Responding to the UK's decision to shelve AI copyright reform, CCIA's Matthew Sinclair said Britain keeps "the worst copyright regime for AI training of any major economy" against Japan, the EU and the United States, and urged a fresh compromise. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CCIA-backed study says DMA drained European startup funding, not a Kill Zone A CCIA Research Center study of 2,276 European venture-backed firms found no rise in EU IPOs since the Digital Markets Act and a 37 percent fall in venture funding from 2022 to 2024, leading chief economist Trevor Wagener to call the "Kill Zone" rationale a myth. Policy and lawIndustry, investment and R&D ReportedAI-drafted CCIA Europe urges swift deal after Parliament sets AI Omnibus position After Parliament's IMCO and LIBE committees adopted their AI Omnibus negotiating mandate, CCIA Europe urged trilogue negotiators to set a 12 month grace period for generative AI marking and labelling to avoid legal uncertainty for firms. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted EuroStack urges German leaders to resist hyperscaler alliance, build sovereign stack EuroStack's open letter told German leadership that a new alliance between domestic industry and hyperscalers must not undermine Buy European efforts, urging sovereign tech infrastructure built through industrial leadership rather than AI alone. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CISPE-led cloud CEOs urge EU to block sovereignty washing in Cloud AI Act CEOs of 25 European cloud providers, led by CISPE, wrote to Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen urging that the Cloud and AI Development Act require EU control of data and infrastructure and a Buy European procurement principle, warning against sovereignty washing. Policy and lawCompute and infrastructure VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi says Council draft strips worst GDPR and ePrivacy cuts, risks remain EDRi assessed the Council's first Digital Omnibus compromise and found damaging changes to the GDPR's personal data definition, scientific research rules and Article 22 dropped, though AI development and terminal equipment provisions remain unresolved. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA chief Polyakova proposes a 'Pax Silica' coalition to meet China's tech push CEPA chief executive Alina Polyakova writes that neither Washington nor Europe can outcompete China's tech drive alone, citing China's lead in 57 of 64 critical technology categories, and proposes a Pax Silica coalition to secure the silicon supply chain. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law ReportedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Berlin urges the West to copy Ukraine's private sector air defence model CEPA's Derek Berlin urges the West to copy Ukraine's programme letting private firms finance and deploy air defences at ports and power stations, citing European airport shutdowns from drone sightings as proof of fragile infrastructure. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE says Europe's competitiveness crisis is a tech investment problem ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Oscar Guinea argue Europe's competitiveness gap is a technology performance problem, citing computer programming at 6.2% of EU business R&D against 18.6% in the US, and urge deregulation over subsidies. Industry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Majcin questions how far France's nuclear umbrella can shield Europe CEPA's Juraj Majcin says President Macron's move to extend France's roughly 290 warhead deterrent to Germany, Poland, Denmark and Sweden marks a break from Gaullist doctrine, though its reach against Russia's larger arsenal is limited. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope urges WTO to enshrine e-commerce rules, expand IT pact at MC14 DigitalEurope urged WTO members at MC14 to fold the JSI e-commerce text into WTO law and widen the Information Technology Agreement, citing a possible EUR 2 trillion gain and two million jobs for Europe from freer data flows. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope sets conditions for digital euro's place in EU payments DigitalEurope urged the ECB and EU institutions to design the digital euro as a complement to private payment rails, prioritising offline use, holding limits and fair distributor compensation rather than displacing existing systems. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Monette: France's debt and gridlock undercut its defence spending pledge CEPA's Nicole Monette says France's pledge to raise defence spending to EUR 64 billion within 18 months and add EUR 36 billion by 2030 is undercut by debt at 113 percent of GDP and a hung parliament after Bayrou's resignation. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Fennell: Royal Navy's slow Cyprus response risks national embarrassment James Fennell, CEPA fellow and former FCDO stabilisation director, writes that HMS Dragon could not sail from Cyprus until 10 March after a 2 March drone attack, behind an 11 ship French deployment, and argues UK defence spending of 2.3 percent of GDP is inadequate. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope urges EUR 20 billion ecosystem budget for Chips Act 2.0 DigitalEurope urged Brussels to redesign Chips Act 2.0 around ecosystem competitiveness rather than fab subsidies, proposing a EUR 20 billion centralised semiconductor budget and dropping the narrow first of a kind fab criterion. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE calls EU Industrial Accelerator Act bureaucratic industrial policy ECIPE's Matthias Bauer calls the Commission's Industrial Accelerator Act "industrial policy by paperwork", arguing its supply chain documentation rules burden firms without lifting the EU's 2035 manufacturing GDP target. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CCIA Europe warns Parliament's AI copyright report will squeeze startups Responding to Parliament's copyright and generative AI resolution, CCIA Europe's Boniface de Champris said the non-binding report risks a "compliance tax" that could price European AI startups out of the market and should not replace existing rules. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA's Cytera says UK chip design incubators could grow the next ARM CEPA's Christopher Cytera argues that Swansea's semiconductor doctoral centre and incubators ChipStart and SiliconCatalyst.UK can grow a new ARM, keeping chip design at the frontier of the democratic world and out of China's hands. Compute and infrastructure ReportedAbroadAI-drafted Schwarz Digits co-chair says Lidl's cloud arm aims to be Europe's hyperscaler Schwarz Digits co-chairman Christian Müller said in an interview the Lidl owner's cloud arm wants to become a "hyperscaler", a European alternative to AWS and Azure, as it builds its EUR 11 billion Lübbenau AI data campus. Industry, investment and R&DCompute and infrastructure ReportedEditor-read EU defence commissioner Kubilius urges Poland to back EUR 43.7 billion SAFE loans Commissioner Andrius Kubilius told reporters in Warsaw that Poland rejecting its EUR 43.7 billion share of the EU's EUR 150 billion SAFE loans would cost Polish jobs, as President Nawrocki resisted the scheme. Defence and space ReportedEditor-read ECIPE says EU copyright rules choke data access for European AI systems ECIPE's Oscar Guinea argues that EU copyright restrictions on data access for AI training undermine Europe's capacity to both develop and deploy AI, risking a shift from producer to consumer of the technology. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Decety says FCAS collapse shows Europe needs centralised procurement CEPA's Nathan Decety says FCAS's collapse shows national government-to-contractor deals give industrial champions too much leverage, and urges a centralised European procurement authority modelled on the UK-Italy-Japan GCAP programme. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Bassoli: FCAS fiasco proves European defence choices stay national CEPA's Anna Matilde Bassoli argues FCAS's collapse, driven by a Dassault-Airbus row over an 80 percent workshare split and Franco-German rifts under Chancellor Merz, shows defence decisions remain national, not European. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Bologa urges Europe to deepen digital partnerships beyond talk shops CEPA's Anda Bologa writes that with US firms holding 70 to 80 percent of Europe's cloud market and designing its cutting edge chips, Europe should upgrade its digital partnerships with Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Canada beyond talk shops. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law ReportedAbroadAI-drafted CCIA Europe urges Irish EU presidency to reject preference for EU vendors CCIA Europe published 12 recommendations for Ireland's EU Council presidency, urging it to finish the regulatory Omnibuses, reject discriminatory EU-preference procurement rules, and block network usage fees on content providers. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted CEPA fellow Golubeva urges a coordinated EU cyber defence layer against Russia CEPA's Marija Golubeva argues the EU's 27 states should build a coordinated cyber defence "switchboard", with better prepared members like France and Poland aiding others, replacing reliance on US offensive cyber support. Defence and spacePolicy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Fedasiuk: Europe should pursue selective sovereignty in AI compute CEPA's Ryan Fedasiuk argues Europe should pursue "selective sovereignty" in AI infrastructure, leaning on its strength in energy and cable systems from Siemens, ABB and Prysmian rather than building a full EuroStack. Compute and infrastructure VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope report urges EU market for scale to close EUR 1.2 trillion gap DigitalEurope argues Europe's tech gap is a commercialisation problem, citing an annual EUR 1.2 trillion investment shortfall, and urges EU-level procurement, harmonised tax incentives and demand creation over 27 national approaches. Industry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi: US visa bans and reports pressure Dutch enforcement of the DSA EDRi member Bits of Freedom, with Justice for Prosperity, cites a US House Judiciary report of 3 February 2026 and late December 2025 US visa bans on five Europeans tied to DSA enforcement, calling it foreign interference in EU digital sovereignty. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE's Bauer: CJEU copyright case is a binary choice for European AI ECIPE's Matthias Bauer argues a pending CJEU ruling on AI training and copyright is a binary choice that will decide whether Europe stays a location for frontier AI development or becomes a consumer of AI built elsewhere. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope: EU Grids Package underfunds digitalisation for data centres DigitalEurope welcomes the Commission's European Grids Package for backing grid enhancing technologies, but says its EUR 1.2 trillion investment estimate to 2040 still leaves distribution level digitalisation, which underpins data centre capacity, underfunded. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Landsbergis: Europe must forge its own strategy, not await US Former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote in CEPA that Europe must set its own strategic course rather than wait on Washington, citing its exclusion from Ukraine talks and urging Europe to press its own transatlantic agenda. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Cytera: Europe should target next-generation chips, not legacy fabs CEPA's Christopher Cytera argues Europe should target chip niches like silicon carbide and design rather than legacy fabrication, citing the EU Chips Act's over EUR 43 billion mobilised and EUR 2.2 billion for STMicroelectronics's Sicily plant. Industry, investment and R&D VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope's Bonefeld-Dahl: AI Act delay must not replace real reform DigitalEurope director general Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl warns lawmakers not to let the AI Act's urgent delay substitute for fixing unresolved flaws in the omnibus, citing incomplete standards, overlapping conformity rules and heavy Data Act and Cyber Resilience Act burdens. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted DigitalEurope urges splitting AI omnibus into delay and reform tracks DigitalEurope's Julien Chasserieau and Bianca Manelli propose splitting the AI omnibus into a fast-tracked delay and a separate reform, urging sectoral integration of AI rules, legacy clauses, GDPR-aligned data governance and dropping duplicate CE marking for software. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted Starmer tells Munich conference Europe must spend, deliver and coordinate more UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the Munich Security Conference Europe must "spend more, deliver more, and coordinate more" on hard power, citing GBP 500 million in fresh UK air defence support for Ukraine and a pending warship deal with Norway. Defence and space VerifiedEditor-read Macron tells EU leaders joint borrowing is the only way to fund sovereignty push Ahead of the EU leaders' retreat at Alden Biesen, President Macron said the EU is under-indebted next to the US and China and called for common eurobond borrowing to fund roughly EUR 1,200 billion a year in green, digital, defence and security investment. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law ReportedEditor-read SWP Berlin's Cyber Activity Balance 2025 finds no joint EU attribution in 2025 SWP Berlin's Bendiek, Hemmelskamp and Rottinger report that EU directed cyberattacks fell in number through 2025 yet struck more organisations, and that member states made not a single joint attribution, exposing a coordination gap. Policy and law ReportedAI-drafted ECIPE paper: cloud resilience needs exit rights and portability, not isolation ECIPE's Matthias Bauer and Dyuti Pandya argue cloud resilience rests on preserving exit, portability and multi cloud choice across the lifecycle, and that portable licensing beats localisation mandates as EU policy. Compute and infrastructurePolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Murphy: Europe pursues autonomy without severing US tech ties CEPA's Ronan Murphy writes that hardening European opinion on the US, friction over the DSA and DMA, and diversification toward India and Mercosur show Europe seeking reduced dependence on US tech without a full break, ahead of the Munich Security Conference. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted DigitalEurope: 75 European CEOs urge urgent EU tech investment and procurement Ahead of the EU leaders' retreat, DigitalEurope publishes a call endorsed by over 75 European CEOs for a stronger EU mandate on investment, joint procurement and market integration, and completion of the Capital Markets Union. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE's Pandya: Europe conflates tech sovereignty with self-sufficiency ECIPE's Dyuti Pandya argues EU policymakers conflate technological sovereignty with self-sufficiency, warning that localisation mandates such as the proposed Industrial Accelerator Act echo failed schemes like France's Plan Calcul rather than building real capability. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted SWP Berlin paper says EU lacks delivery capacity on African raw materials SWP Berlin's Meike Schulze argues the EU's 15 critical raw material partnerships and Global Gateway lack delivery capacity against China and Gulf rivals, urging joint project pipelines, dedicated MFF funding and EIB offtake deals worth EUR 2 billion a year. Industry, investment and R&DPolicy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE urges EU to model DMA review on Japan's narrower platform law ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon, Andrea Dugo and Dyuti Pandya argue the Commission's ongoing Digital Markets Act review should borrow Japan's narrower, effects-based Mobile Software Competition Act rather than keep the EU's broad, categorical rulebook. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted European DIGITAL SME Alliance: Cybersecurity Act revision needs sovereignty ambition European DIGITAL SME Alliance says the Cybersecurity Act revision helps SMEs via EU wide certification aligned with NIS2 and the CRA, but argues certification stays narrowly technical and should add sovereignty and dependency criteria. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted ECIPE's Dugo maps EU's EUR 740 billion cumulative R&D gap against the US ECIPE's Andrea Dugo finds the EU's cumulative corporate R&D shortfall against the US reached around EUR 740 billion by 2024, EUR 114 billion in that year alone, and argues Europe lacks mechanisms to scale innovative firms into leaders. Industry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi: Commission's Digital Networks Act guts EU net neutrality rules EDRi member epicenter.works argues the Commission's Digital Networks Act, proposed 21 January 2026, would strip net neutrality legal safeguards, let providers charge for fast lanes and fold independent regulator BEREC into a Commission-controlled office. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted CEPA's Riedenstein: joint government pressure beats solo tech enforcement CEPA's Clara Riedenstein argues coordinated pressure from the EU, UK, Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia and California forced Grok to restrict its image generation faster than isolated DSA or antitrust enforcement has managed against other platforms. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA's Nolan urges EU to scale Pay by Bank against Visa and Mastercard CEPA's Padraig Nolan argues Europe should build on existing Pay by Bank infrastructure, linking over 400 million accounts, rather than build new rails, noting Visa and Mastercard processed roughly 61 per cent of euro area card transactions in 2022. Policy and law VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted CEPA authors urge Europe to stand up its own military operations centre CEPA fellows G. Alexander Crowther and Jahara Matisek argued Europe should build a Multidomain Operations Center in Ukraine, starting with an Airpower Allied Command, to gain operational autonomy from NATO's consensus-based structure and a shifting US focus. Defence and space VerifiedAbroadAI-drafted ECIPE paper argues Europe should copy Taiwan's chip ecosystem model, not subsidies ECIPE's Andrea Dugo and Dyuti Pandya argue Europe should copy Taiwan's ecosystem building rather than subsidies alone, urging clustered R&D, systemic talent policy and state enabled, not state led, semiconductor industrial strategy to build sovereign capability. Compute and infrastructureIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted SWP's Eric Ballbach argues Germany should deepen defence industrial ties with South Korea SWP's Eric Ballbach urges Germany to deepen defence industrial ties with South Korea, its second largest arms supplier after the US, citing Hanwha Aerospace's planned ammunition and missile plants in eastern Germany and calling for NATO equivalent export status. Defence and spaceIndustry, investment and R&D VerifiedAI-drafted Virkkunen tells Euronews all tech firms, including US ones, must follow EU digital rules Tech sovereignty commissioner Henna Virkkunen told Euronews that American, Asian and European firms alike "have to follow the rules" in the EU, as Brussels pursued its Digital Services Act probe into X's Grok chatbot. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted EDRi calls for swift EU action as Commission probes X's Grok chatbot EDRi welcomed the European Commission's DSA investigation into X's Grok chatbot over non-consensual sexualised images, urging a swift probe, a dissuasive fine, and for EU institutions to reduce their presence on X in favour of alternative platforms. Policy and law VerifiedAI-drafted