The Council and Parliament have reached a trilogue agreement on a revision of the Directive on liability for defective products (PLD). The aim is to modernize the product liability law from 1985 and make it fit the requirements of digitalization and the circular economy. The law also includes software and artificial intelligence in regulation for […]
On Wednesday, six months before the European Parliament elections on June 9, 2024, the EU Commission presented a package of measures to defend democracy. The most important element of the package is a legislative proposal that regulates the transparency and democratic accountability of interest groups that are financed from abroad. In this way, the Commission […]
Despite major differences among the 27 EU member states, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz continues to hope for an agreement on future EU budgets at the EU summit in Brussels, which begins on Thursday. He would like to reach an agreement, Scholz said in Berlin on Monday after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.“But […]
Political agreement on the AI Act has been reached. However, a lot of technical work is still needed in the coming weeks to clarify the details. It also remains to be seen how Germany will accept the compromise. Because the outcome of the most difficult points during the negotiations turned out differently than the German […]
Assessments of the status of the AI Act negotiations vary. While one participant said that there were no more unresolved issues and that it was just a matter of looking at everything again in peace, another participant vehemently disagreed. It is clear that the negotiations will continue. They are scheduled for today, Friday, at 0900.The […]
As expected, the negotiations on the AI Act are tough. As this edition went to press at 5:30 a.m., the negotiations, which began at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, were still ongoing. Participants in the trilogue spoke of an “ultramarathon”. Early this morning, the parliamentary side said that they were at an impasse and were expecting […]
Germany will elect the MEPs it sends to the European Parliament in six months. At least, more than half of Germans already know that European elections will be held next year. Not quite as many know the month they will be in. But that’s a good start.And what is probably the most important issue for […]
Ahead of the fifth trilogue on the AI Act, the assessments could not be more different: “We are very hopeful,” said Carme Artigas, Spanish Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence at the meeting of ministers in the Telecommunications Council on Tuesday. “We have a sufficiently concrete but also broad mandate from the member […]
The European Commission has approved up to €1.2 billion in state aid for another Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI). This IPCEI is intended to support research, development and first industrial applications of advanced cloud and edge computing technologies in Europe, as the Commission announced on Tuesday.It is the first IPCEI in the field […]
Intense discussions at the EU ambassador level on Friday afternoon: How should foundation models such as GPT-4 and general purpose AI (GPAI) be regulated in the AI Act? France is opposed to tough regulation and wants “regulated self-regulation” instead. Other countries are somewhat more flexible, even though Germany and Italy had supported the French position […]