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Editorial: Washington is seeking to bully its way to the deregulation of US digital giants. In the interests of European citizens, the pressure must be resisted

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules

The revision of the Cybersecurity Act will revise the mandate of ENISA and include cybersecurity certification schemes.

Bloc is ‘very committed’ to laws on big tech and is not targeting US companies, says European Commission’s Henna Virkkunen

Henna Virkkunen said the directive would not have led to harmonised rules across Europe.

Up to five sites with power-hungry supercomputers and datacentres planned to drive AI ‘moonshots’

AI has been identified as one of the critical sectors in which the EU should become less dependent on other regions, the Commission said.

The European Commission started an investigation into TikTok last December following reports about voter influence through social media.

The letter comes ahead of a debate on the topic between lawmakers and EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen this week.

The European Commissioner Vice-President for Technology denies that EU digital rules run counter to freedom of speech. In an interview with Euronews, she said these laws are just setting obligations for online platforms to assess systematic risks. "We are not regulating the content at all," she said

An interview with tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen on the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) is featured on Radio Schuman today.