Category: Politico News

The Commission’s Artificial Intelligence Office enforces this monitoring, and has contracted leading independent AI researchers, such as those from METR, an independent non-profit research organization based in California, to carry out the regulatory oversight. Indeed, it was METR that was called in by OpenAI researchers to investigate after a much-discussed July hack of AI company […]

On Wednesday evening, Josef Aschbacher, the director general of the European Space Agency, urged European countries to boost funding to the ESA. In a meeting with ministers from ESA member states, he said that by investing €1 billion per year over the next 10 years, Europe could finally afford to send astronauts into space without […]

A recent Opinium poll carried by the website Guido Fawkes which highlighted Londoners would rather have an entrepreneur than an ex-minister as mayor did not state the poll was commissioned by London mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye. While this information was included in an Evening Standard write-up of the poll, it was only published belatedly by Opinium. A […]

She pointed to Article 123 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which prohibits the ECB and national central banks from financing governments. The provision was agreed to and ratified by all EU member countries, Lagarde stressed. Lagarde also dismissed the proposal on economic grounds, citing “very, very solid economists,” including former […]

The call comes after the AfD won 43.8% in the regional election in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result and leaving Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats a distant second at 17.2 %. Wadephul argued Thursday that the way forward was not to retreat from Germany’s commitments, but to do a better job of explaining […]

She is also a prime mover behind an overhaul of the EU’s merger guidelines, which in addition to traditional competition concerns would allow greater latitude for mergers that create so-called European champions.  “We have proposed updated Merger Guidelines — so that they recognize that European companies need scale to invest and compete globally,” von der […]

“We want to ensure equal treatment of all the European Union’s official languages, including French, of course, in the context of the agreements with Indonesia and India,” said a French official, granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door discussions.  The European Commission estimates that prioritizing the English version would cut almost a year off the time […]

Snabe will serve in the unpaid role until the end of March 2027 and is expected to produce a report on issues including AI infrastructure, frontier AI technologies and industrial AI adoption.  But the appointment came under fire because of Siemens’ recent role in lobbying to loosen the AI rules now shaping Europe’s industrial strategy.  […]

Having spent the summer trying to ease the cost of living, is a new tourist tax about to hit domestic holiday makers in the pocket? The government is giving mayors additional powers to introduce a levy on hotel stays, with no cap on how much they can charge. With the tourism industry already angry, Sam […]

Matveev added that Zelenskyy’s air campaign has exposed how the Russian military can’t fully protect the country. That was underscored in May when the Kremlin reluctantly pared back the Victory Day jamboree celebrating the Red Army’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Shortly after, in June, Ukraine repeatedly struck Russian oil refineries and fuel infrastructure, including around […]