European Union

The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional political agreement on May 7 to simplify the AI Act, shifting key compliance deadlines and adding a new ban on nonconsensual intimate imagery.

The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 29 that Meta violated the DSA by allowing children under 13 to create accounts using false birth dates, with potential fines reaching 6% of its global turnover.

Four months before the EU AI Act's core provisions take effect, the European Commission's public register shows that only eight of 27 member states have designated the national authorities required to enforce it.

The Commission says its new age-verification app is ready for deployment, but researchers and privacy advocates are already flagging security and platform-dependence concerns.

Brussels awarded a six-year framework contract for sovereign cloud services to Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus, using a new eight-criteria sovereignty framework that allows Google Cloud to participate only through the Proximus-led consortium.

Spain's MiDNI app gained mandatory legal acceptance on April 2, positioning the country among the first EU member states with a fully operational national digital ID as the bloc's December 2026 EUDI wallet deadline approaches with uneven progress.

The EU deploys an AI-powered traceability tool that connects national food safety databases to accelerate fraud detection and product recalls across all 27 member states.

The EU Council and Parliament endorsed amendments delaying high-risk AI system deadlines by up to 16 months and banning nonconsensual deepfake imagery, as Amnesty International warns of a rights rollback.

Three major 2026 reports reveal Europe is accelerating open source adoption as a strategic tool for digital sovereignty, even as vulnerabilities double and Cyber Resilience Act deadlines loom.

The EU's executive arm is investigating a breach of its Amazon Web Services account that exposed Europa.eu infrastructure, the second cloud incident to hit the institution in 2026.

Teresa Ribera signals the EU will examine every layer of AI infrastructure for competition distortions, from chips to cloud to models.

The second Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris brought four new signatories to the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy, with the EU announcing a 200 million euro guarantee for advanced reactor investment.