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Europe can turbocharge growth with merger rules that take the long view.

Merger decisions shape innovation, investment & the ability to scale — delivering better quality, choice and long-term outcomes for consumers.

For #connectivity, this is crucial. https://t.co/BExWra8ipT

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.@orange is showing how telcos can move beyond connectivity into secure AI services for critical sectors: its GenAI platform is now supporting more than 15,000 healthcare professionals in 🇫🇷 hospitals, helping streamline access to information: https://t.co/tCm7cDXeqg

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Europe’s digital resilience depends on infrastructure most users never see — including the submarine cables that keep islands connected and data moving across borders. Take GO’s upgrade of the GO-1 submarine cable between Malta and Sicily as an example ➡️ https://t.co/akVecV6tog

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#Accessibility is a key component of an inclusive digital society. On 9 June, Angela Coriz will contribute to the #BEREC External Workshop on the European #AccessibilityAct and the future of accessible #digitaleu communications: https://t.co/DVIdZ5PnsQ #empoweringEUConnectivity

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Join the 🇪🇺 #5G4SC Emergency, Safety & Security Working Group (18 June, 10:00–12:00 CEST) to explore how #5G can scale for crisis management, resilience & public safety across Europe.

Register now👉 https://t.co/gKfen42LbQ #SmartCommunities #CEFDigital

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Europe’s cloud and #AI ambitions need the right conditions for investment, deployment and demand. Sovereign cloud cannot flourish without robust, advanced & scalable #connectivity.

Our position on the new @EU_Commission Technological Sovereignty Package: https://t.co/j2sVUCX2AP

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Future networks will not be built on yesterday's rules.

Our Deputy DG Maarit Palovirta in @POLITICOEurope points out that the #DigitalNetworksAct is a competitiveness test. Europe needs investment and innovation, not more complexity➡️ https://t.co/P51i3RNOBr

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🌍 Scaling Europe for global challenges — industrial policy, competition and beyond.

Our #PolicySummit closed with @Caffar3Cristina, Chair of the #EuroStack Foundation, in conversation with Román Arjona, Chief Economist @EU_Growth.

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☁️ There is no sovereign cloud or AI without sovereign #connectivity.

At our #PolicySummit, @MattEcke, @OVHcloud's Anne Duboscq and @Exoscale's Mathias Nöbauer ask how Europe builds its own tech stack. @EUdigitalsme's @sebastianobxl steers the debate.

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🛡️ Europe's digital backbone must hold.

At our #PolicySummit, @FTTHCouncilEU's Vincent Garnier, our Pinar Serdengecti and Ireland's Oisín Herbots tackle how the #CybersecurityAct is reshaping #cybersecurity across critical networks. @ecso_eu's Cristian Tracci hosts.

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⚖️ Should #EUmerger rules reward scale & innovation, and not just count #telecom operators?

As the #MergerGuidelines are reformed, @EU_Competition, @Orange_Brussels, 4iG and @linklaters debate at our #PolicySummit. Laurent Eymard (BRG) leads this #EUcompetition discussion.

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📡 Can the #DigitalNetworksAct finally turn regulatory certainty into faster deployment and renewed investment?

MEPs @michalkobosko & @AdinaValean, @DigitalEU, @Telefonica & @DT_Brussels debate at our #PolicySummit. @GSMAEurope's Elsa Sependa moderates.

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🎙️ The #PolicySummit stage opens with a keynote from Renate Nikolay (@RenateNikolay), Deputy Director-General @DigitalEU, on what it takes to build a connected, competitive and sovereign #EUDigital future.

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Our #PolicySummit is underway, and our DG @agropelli opens with the question defining Europe's #EUDigital decade: can we align #connectivityEU, capital and competition policy to secure the continent's technological leadership?

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Telecom operators are proposing 12 fixes to turn the #DigitalNetworksAct into a real enabler of Europe's tech leadership — with real simplification, a new regulatory approach to speed up #FTTH and rules that boost #5G & future #6G innovation: https://t.co/UG5Yob3b0C #PolicySummit

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Can the EU mandate a copper switch-off by 2035 under Article 114 TFEU?

A new legal opinion by former ECJ judge Roberto Mastroianni says the #DigitalNetworksAct proposal raises serious doubts — on competence, subsidiarity and property rights.

Read more: https://t.co/UlcIkurQ5k

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🏗️ Europe’s digital stack is more than fibre. @KPN and Schwarz Digits are launching a sovereign cloud in the Netherlands — keeping data, governance and compute in Europe for vital sectors where resilience and control matter. Read: https://t.co/ucLWb1TvKB

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🚀 Innovation needs clarity for #5G network slicing and specialised services.
➡️ Co-legislators have the opportunity to make the #DigitalNetworksAct a real driver of investment, innovation and resilience.

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#ConnectivityEU is now recognised as Europe’s strategic backbone — but the #DigitalNetworksAct still needs to match that ambition. Our European Affairs Advisor Staša Tkalec said yesterday at the @EESC_TEN Section meeting.

🧵 Her main messages 👇️

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🏠 Fibre transition should stay market-led, with support for deployment, demand and best-practice sharing — not rigid EU deadlines.
⚖️ Simplification must be real: fewer overlaps, fewer reporting obligations and “same services, same rules”.