European Commission

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others

Networks21 Jan 2026 | 16

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence

Software11 Jan 2026 | 82

Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight

Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominance

AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 6

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement

Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video

Personal Tech08 Dec 2025 | 90

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency

Legal05 Dec 2025 | 105

Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap

Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling

PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 1

EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'

Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations

Legal11 Nov 2025 | 38

Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!

Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU

PaaS + IaaS07 Nov 2025 | 47

EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants

Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body

PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 11

EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate

Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2025 | 18

EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink

Semicon Coalition presses European Commission for stronger funding, strategy, and skills drive

Systems29 Sep 2025 | 8

Just using open source software isn't radical any more. Europe needs to dig deeper

Feature Companies must realize they can be more than pure consumers, and public sector ought to go beyond 'promotion'

OSes26 Sep 2025 | 20

Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers

They would say that, wouldn’t they?

Legal26 Sep 2025 | 11

EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold

While EC suspects vendor's practices stifle competition, it argues it is in line with industry standards

Software25 Sep 2025 | 7

EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge

Slack's complaint sparked a five-year investigation, but Redmond walks away fine-free

SaaS12 Sep 2025 | 6

Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules

Updated Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked

PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2025 | 10

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help

Security02 Sep 2025 | 55

Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap

World War Fee US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions

Public Sector21 Aug 2025 | 30

Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay

Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'

Applications20 Aug 2025 | 6

Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud, perhaps due to EU sanctions on Russia

Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves

Off-Prem04 Aug 2025 | 32

Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google

On-Prem30 Jul 2025 | 20

Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves

AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 27

Trump pushes EU into trade 'deal' that several EU leaders aren't happy about

world war fee Europe is acting like the victim of a bully

Public Sector28 Jul 2025 | 136

Meta joins Google in ragequitting EU political ads over onerous regulations

Zuckercorp blames legal uncertainty under upcoming TTPA law

Legal25 Jul 2025 | 49

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

COMMENT CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters

Virtualization24 Jul 2025 | 6

EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law

A new code aims to make it easy to figure out

AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 8

Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed

The iMaker's fight with European regulators continues

Personal Tech07 Jul 2025 | 14

EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running

176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed

On-Prem01 Jul 2025 | 9

Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate

CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight

On-Prem30 Jun 2025 | 32

Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders

Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless

Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 44

European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan

One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger'

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 18

Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU

Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store

OSes03 Jun 2025 | 20

Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules

Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish

Applications29 May 2025 | 13

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up

CxO29 May 2025 | 31

Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade

Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained

SaaS16 May 2025 | 7

EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0

Damning report says it set a moving target that was way too ambitious

Systems28 Apr 2025 | 10

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship

Legal23 Apr 2025 | 52

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

World War Fee Middle Kingdom gets 145%. So this is what it's like living in reality TV

On-Prem09 Apr 2025 | 154

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too

Security03 Apr 2025 | 149

EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list

Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS

Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 9

Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions

Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 107

EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China

Captain's Log, Stardate 3529.7 – oh yeah, Commish also withdrawing law that would help folks sue over AI harms

AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 15

Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

NATO increasing patrols in the Baltic as region awaits navy drones

Networks27 Jan 2025 | 64

Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day

Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 113

EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms

Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election

Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 93

Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue

Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA

Software16 Jan 2025 | 27

Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

AI + ML22 Dec 2024 | 143

Apple and Meta trade barbs over interoperability requests

Both are only thinking about the best interests of users, of course

Personal Tech19 Dec 2024 | 35

Take a closer look at Nvidia's buy of Run.ai, European Commission told

Updated Campaign groups, non-profit orgs urge action to prevent GPU maker tightening grip on AI industry

Systems16 Dec 2024 | 3

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative

Legal26 Nov 2024 | 82

European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing

Exclusive Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium

PaaS + IaaS20 Nov 2024 | 3

Top EU court overturns Intel's billion-dollar antitrust fine

Conditional rebates settled, but $400M matter of naked restrictions remains

Systems24 Oct 2024 | 6

Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft

Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal

PaaS + IaaS25 Sep 2024 | 29

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue

Software19 Sep 2024 | 32

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky

Personal Tech18 Sep 2024 | 13

EU kicks off an inquiry into Google's AI model

Privacy regulator taking a closer look at data privacy and PaLM 2

Security12 Sep 2024 | 8