Théophane Hartmann

VPN surge won’t stop France’s fight against porn, @ClaraChappaz told my colleague Anupriya Datta and I today in Luxembourg https://t.co/V0CSsOpA3l

🇩🇰 to focus on curbing children’s access to social media in dedicated EU Ministers meeting on 9-10 October Coalition of liked-minded countries now includes: 🇨🇾, 🇩🇰, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇷, 🇮🇹, 🇸🇮 - @Euractiv https://t.co/flsWQR31AB

Perfect timing for the EU Space Act @EU_Commission

EXCLUSIVE: TikTok says it has banned #SkinnyTok worldwide amid French pressure by Digital Minister @ClaraChappaz who pressed the issue directly with the social media giant - raising questions over credibility of @EU_Commission as tech enforcer @Euractiv https://t.co/VAXjfBjy7Z

"Tower war" - @AssembleeNat last week adopted an amendment favouring land aggregators over tower companies – a move that could shape future EU debates amid ongoing disputes between the two groups in France, the UK, and Brussels - @Euractiv https://t.co/QzUjjJCv7W

Advocates of EU digital sovereignty cite the recent suspension of ICC prosecutor Khan’s email account as evidence that the Trump administration could weaponise US tech dominance to pressure allies – even over Greenland. - @Euractiv https://t.co/c76KVQcm2d

UPDATE - An analysis -and the slides deck- of what’s inside the catch-all review of EU telecom rules in the Commission’s upcoming Digital Networks Act The Commission wants to reduce “up to 50%” of operators’ reporting obligations. - @Euractiv https://t.co/ex6Lk34Lim

Théophane Hartmann @theophane_h

EXCLUSIVE The @EU_Commission may not propose a rules overhaul as ambitious as previously suggested in the DNA, slides shown by a senior Commission official to telecommunications Council attachés on 27 May and seen by @Euractiv suggest. https://t.co/QiOIJqGERJ

EXCLUSIVE The @EU_Commission may not propose a rules overhaul as ambitious as previously suggested in the DNA, slides shown by a senior Commission official to telecommunications Council attachés on 27 May and seen by @Euractiv suggest. https://t.co/QiOIJqGERJ

Tech Sovereignty Commissioner @HennaVirkkunen appeared significantly less favourable to deregulating the telecommunications market than the official stance Commission senior officials have been promoting for months, in an interview with @Euractiv today https://t.co/qTqMtK8aQF

EU ministers adopted today a set of conclusions on the use of satellite data, agreeing only to the "importance of protecting" space infrastructure rather than on any measures to actually do it. - @Euractiv https://t.co/SL10YIJMMW

The European Commission is re-opening the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to ease the compliance burden on businesses with fewer than 750 staff, it announced today. - @Euractiv by @Claudie_Moreau https://t.co/Fn3We0F788

🟢 The Polish conclusions on "reliable and resilient connectivity" will be discussed for adoption by the Council of the European Union in its telecommunications format in Luxembourg on 6 June, after the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper I) gave its green light.

Romanian presidential candidate George Simion will challenge the election results at the Constitutional Court, accusing France and Moldova of interference. - @Euractiv by Catalina Mihai https://t.co/EHvUwxyy8C

Two key figures behind the Eurostack initiative aimed at boosting tech sovereignty are locked in a battle over who owns the rights to the name, and therefore the potential to unlock access to any cash bonanza from a push to wean off US tech. - @Euractiv https://t.co/w008krHPeD

EXCLUSIVE: @Europarl_EN to urge @EU_Commission to map out 🇪🇺’s dependencies on 🇺🇸 tech “The market has not developed this base layer in many important areas, which has led to monopolies and reliance on foreign actors”, reads the document. https://t.co/U3uS98bmwK

EXCLUSIVE: The @EU_Commission is asking telecom companies whether the stability and solvency rules imposed on banks in the aftermath of the 2007 global financial crisis are hindering investment in their networks, three documents seen by @Euractiv show. https://t.co/5DcogK6b1T

Don’t count on full reform, @EU_Commission tells telecoms Two senior Commission officials told a broad gathering of top telecom executives that regulatory reform is no magic wand, stressing that innovation must come from them - @Euractiv https://t.co/LCbXKAyHh1