NATO has signed strategic cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET, formalising what the alliance describes as non-commercial agreements to strengthen collective resilience in cyberspace. The partnerships were announced on 27 May at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn, Estonia, the annual gathering organised by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of […]
Berlin and Madrid are resisting the European Commission’s push for binding legislation on Huawei and ZTE, citing Beijing-retaliation risk and the cost of AI-infrastructure build-out. Germany and Spain are leading opposition inside the European Council to the European Commission’s draft plan to ban Huawei and ZTE equipment from EU telecom networks at the bloc level. […]
The 80-year-old bearings maker and the US-listed satellite firm have signed an MoU to industrialise Spire’s 100-satellite-a-year Munich plant for European defence customers. Schaeffler AG, the German precision-engineering company best known for the bearings inside almost every aircraft engine and Ariane rocket, has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-listed satellite firm Spire Global to […]
China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the centre of Belgrade in what police estimated as a 34,300-person rally demanding early elections, accountability […]
The European Central Bank has formally told eurozone banks they must tighten their cyber-security posture in response to AI-led attack tools, in a follow-up statement issued on Wednesday that turns earlier private guidance into something closer to a supervisory expectation. The ECB’s vice-chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Frank Elderson, framed the shift in language […]
The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the most concentrated single attempt yet to reduce European reliance on American cloud, AI and chip infrastructure. The package, according […]
The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […]
The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission is preparing to reserve two-thirds of the bloc’s future mobile-satellite-services spectrum for European operators, leaving Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other non-EU companies […]
A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi for operating in the country without a gambling licence, according to an order published in the Spanish state gazette on Tuesday by […]
The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under the bloc’s new tech competition regime. The Commission’s case rests on the long-running complaint that […]
