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 states, which will give us the necessary flexibility.“ She conceded that some positions were still a long way from the parliamentary positions, but that they could come closer.