Laurens Cerulus

1 month ago | politico.eu | Antoaneta Roussi |Laurens Cerulus

"This is the war that is going on in the shadows," EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas told Belgian broadcaster VRT in response. Recent incidents across Europe range from cyberattacks and espionage to targeted arson, undersea cable sabotage and GPS jamming. These attacks “against us are on the rise,” Kallas said. The EU and NATO have ramped up their defenses against such "hybrid threats" in the past months.

2 months ago | politico.eu | Laurens Cerulus |Pieter Haeck

BRUSSELS — The United States risks moving from a policy of “America First” to “America alone” if it antagonizes its allies in Europe, Belgium’s new defense minister warned. “If you chase your allies away, in such a brash way, then you’re going to stay ‘America alone,’” Defense Minister Theo Francken told POLITICO in an interview.

2 months ago | politico.eu | Laurens Cerulus

Live coverage from Munich: POLITICO is on the ground at the Munich Security Conference, where we’re having conversations with top officials, lawmakers and experts at our POLITICO Pub. Follow our exclusive coverage here. MUNICH — From Paris to Munich, JD Vance devoted his first trip overseas to ripping apart Europe's tech regulatory playbook — page by page.

2 months ago | politico.eu | Sam Clark |Laurens Cerulus

Italy’s data protection authority has ordered a block on Chinese artificial intelligence revelation DeepSeek, it said late on Thursday. The regulator said it has ordered Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence — the Chinese companies behind the DeepSeek chatbot — to stop processing Italians’ data with immediate effect. The move comes after DeepSeek apparently told the authorities it wouldn’t cooperate with a request for information made by the agency.

Nov 28, 2024 | politico.eu | Pieter Haeck |Carmen Paun |Laurens Cerulus |Seb Starcevic

The shock victory of an ultranationalist, pro-Russian candidate in the first round of Romania's presidential election is turning into a defining test of accountability for TikTok. For years, the Chinese-owned social media app has brushed off security concerns in the United States and Europe that it could be used for mass manipulation, but it now faces an intense regulatory storm in Bucharest over whether it played a role in skewing the democratic process in an EU country of 19 million people.