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🇨🇳 China actively uses security and market rules for sovereignty: e.g., blocking META’s $2B acquisition of AI startup Manus. 

Meanwhile: 🇸🇪 Ericsson & 🇫🇮 Nokia saw their China market share drop from 12% to 4%, Huawei & ZTE still hold ~35% of Europe's market. 7/

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The EU’s tech sovereignty package will be presented soon. While sovereignty initiatives are not unique to the EU, the real challenge will be agreeing on the scope, funding, costs, and tolerance for the risk of retaliation. 🧵
https://t.co/nKrHOEz7OM

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Tech sovereignty isn't unique to the EU. Most states use competition policy & national security to shield domestic markets from retaliation.
🇺🇸 The US relies on security-driven initiatives - like removing Chinese gear from its telecom networks. 6/

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🇪🇺 The EU wants more businesses to adopt AI to boost competitiveness. Eurostat data show why many still don’t: lack of technical expertise is the top barrier, followed by data protection concerns and legal uncertainty. Read more: 👇

https://t.co/NIgXy4mMmQ

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The EU's plan to tackle "cookie fatigue": a new centralized, browser-level consent mechanism.
Pros and cons 👇https://t.co/ZSg3C2avsu

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#VPN services will certainly not be 'banned' in the EU. Instead, a multi-layered, 'death by a thousand cuts' framework of obligations for platforms and VPN providers is likely to be launched. #DSA

👉https://t.co/TVogrhIEos

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The #AIOmnibus is here; now it is time to focus on the Digital Omnibus, which centers on data rules for AI. The Commission's initial proposals to make life easier for European businesses have been watered down.

https://t.co/VlNN40sArm

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The European Commission’s self-review of the #DMA is out, and the verdict is, as expected, positive.
@AuerDirk argues: "The DMA can be improved. This review suggests the Commission will not lead that effort."

https://t.co/DewO5p3qVx

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Europe’s #DMA debate is stuck between two extremes: disaster vs. untouchable. Missing is an honest debate about enforcement trade-offs. Requiring Google Search to share sensitive data with “any third party” raises serious privacy concerns.

https://t.co/gFioZtV6um

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The EU unveiled it's own age verification app last week. This is likely to serve as a start for a broader legislative initiative to legalise age-verification and subsequent restrictions on minors.

https://t.co/RHsgT3i7GF

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Siemens warns EU rules are driving industry to the US and China. As the U.S. lures giants with tax cuts and deregulation, Europe faces a high-stakes choice: changing data rules + the "speed vs. sovereignty" chip dilemma

https://t.co/qd6tCzbFK6

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As the 🇪🇺 EU weighs youth social media bans, 🇦🇺 Australia ignores its own failing under-16 ban and tries exporting it, Brussels effect-style.

Here's what the CoE had to say about protecting minors online: https://t.co/0ojCvWyLdi

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🚗 Europe’s fragmented vehicle data rules keep VIN-linked data closed under GDPR, exposing used-car buyers to more fraud.

Instead of removing these barriers, the EU may now shift to a public-only model in the incoming #RoadworthinessPackage.

https://t.co/SMYP6fjZxD

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Europe wants competitiveness, but its data rules still pull in the opposite direction. With the EU data market above €115B in 2025 and the broader data economy projected at €500B, fragmented #GDPR enforcement is still slowing European innovators.

https://t.co/RwknbNmHxz

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.@szilagyipal: "Repealing [the DMA] won’t fix Europe’s deeper problems. What’s needed is broad deregulation, <...> and real enforcement of the internal market - because winning in AI requires strength across all 5 layers of the stack."

Full article: https://t.co/m6hhpPZA6n

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Digital Services Taxes are starting to bite: META advertisers are being told to pay new “location fees” of 2% to 5% in several European countries.

Read more: https://t.co/toaslTlC3t