The jobs squeeze facing Europe
The European Commission’s European Semester Spring Package warns that over a million jobs across Europe could be lost in the coming years due to high energy costs, foreign competition, and the green t…
The European Commission’s European Semester Spring Package warns that over a million jobs across Europe could be lost in the coming years due to high energy costs, foreign competition, and the green t…
The European Commission published its Technological Sovereignty Package on 3 June 2026, adopting the "Public Money? Public Code!" principle to require public administrations to release publicly funded…
The European Union’s €20 billion plan to build five AI gigafactories is faltering due to repeated delays and funding gaps, with the bidding process pushed to July and only two of the five centres elig…
The European Commission announced on May 29, 2026, that it will intensify discussions with the U.S. administration regarding advanced AI models with cyber capabilities, following concerns over Anthrop…
The European Commission met with Anthropic in San Francisco on Thursday to discuss broader access to the company's advanced AI model, Hypothesis, amid growing cybersecurity concerns. European official…
The EU AI Act requires regulated enterprises to embed compliance controls—including risk classification, audit trails, access controls, documentation, and human oversight—directly into AI system archi…
French Minister for Foreign Trade Nicolas Forissier stated that China "won't win anything" if it destroys European industry and the European market, which is essential for Chinese exports. He urged th…
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted permission to intervene for the second time at the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case where Apple is challenging the European …
The European Commission released draft guidelines to help AI providers, deployers, and market surveillance authorities classify high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the AI Act. The guidelines inter…
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted permission to intervene for the second time at the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case where Apple is challenging the European …
AI governance and compliance problems are escalating as companies deploy AI across customer service, fraud detection, and other critical workflows, revealing that governance remains a policy exercise …
Scholar Paul Nemitz, a former European Commission official and co-author of *The Open Future and its Enemies*, warns that three decades of under-regulation have enabled concentrations of wealth and po…
Key April activities from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), including a major policy victory where the European Commission abandoned a rule that threatened users' right to install any softwa…
After more than a decade of advocacy, the European Commission decided in January 2026 to abandon a provision in the EU Radio Equipment Directive that would have required manufacturers to block users f…
According to a new report from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Apple has failed to produce a single concrete solution in response to 56 formal interoperability requests made under the Euro…