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Quote of the afternoon: "People from the car industry told me: 'Europe is not doing that bad, outside of ICT we are on par with the US'. So, if we stick with the losers, we're ok." #techsovereignty

The CJEU says that Meta cannot use each and every piece of information they ever got to target advertising, even when the user "accepts" to be tracked; they must minimize their use of personal information.

For those who missed this, on Saturday night the Italian government's platform for automatically blocking illegal live football streams blocked Google Drive for several hours. However, worry not: apparently, the illegal football streams were still working.

A new study shows how over 1/4 of participants to the Commission's workshops on DMA implementation, though apparently independent, are somehow affiliated with big tech companies. They really want to push back...

Confirmation hearing in European Parliament for Henna Virkkunen - lots of great questions from MEPs on Europe’s digital autonomy and #EuroStack. The Commission will eventually need to acknowledge the changed US landscape needs to be an #accelerator for the EuroStack project.

How can Europe regain its #sovereignty and #competitiveness? Here is a pitch on #eurostack: Europe’s best chance to build its own technology. I contributed to this paper with Cristina Caffarra, R Berjon, Vittorio Bertola, F. Bonfiglio and Kai Zenner euro-stack.eu/a-pitch-paper/

If the new Commission yields to him this fast, I suspect Trump will start calling us "Chicken Europe". ft.com/content/2c1b6b…

As one of the authors of the EuroStack paper, I think it's due time for Europe to stand firm and invest in alternatives to big tech. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

I'm worried. I just heard the head of the German competition authority say that the GDPR is a problem for European businesses. Strong privacy protection is actually one of our few competitive advantages against big tech products. BruxConf2025

This. This is the thing we urgently need to understand. The world of free and fair trade is over, let's start protecting our own interests, our companies and our markets like the US and China already do.

Today's FOSDEM moment was when someone asked the Legal & Policy organizers and the European Commission how they could run a session on "breaking up tech monopolies" at a conference that has Google as a main sponsor. #FOSDEM

Starting the EU policy devroom at #FOSDEM with the presentation of the definition of open source AI. We are in AW1.120.

If you provide DNS or domain name services, please read and fill ICANN's survey on the use of open source in the DNS industry. Thanks! blog.powerdns.com/a-survey-on-op…

A nice read explaining why Europe's regulatory approach to Internet platforms is not a barrier to growth, but a path to competitiveness. If it weren't so, Trump would not be so aggressive against it. ft.com/content/86ecbc…

The EUCJ confirms that Google cannot unilaterally keep competitors' apps out of their Android platforms for whatever "technical" reason. wsj.com/tech/eu-court-…

I'm very happy to announce the release of the English language version of my book on Internet geopolitics, digital sovereignty and big tech regulation, written together with Stefano Quintarelli. We were talking about EuroStack long before the term existed :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Here is when an African participant asks the #IETF when it will ever meet in Africa and gets back a lot of vague words and reasons why meeting instead in Madrid and San Francisco is quite ok.

I'm wondering what's the point of all the high-sounding claims on "digital sovereignty" by top political levels if their agencies then continue to happily buy AWS or other American hyperscalers and proudly take group pictures with them. aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-a…

I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that, like most articles on this topic, it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to

Makes you wonder if Microsoft's marketing team was told to emphasize certain language in their future Europe offering.