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In Europe, the conversation about artificial intelligence has focused heavily on regulation, while its position in the technological race will ultimately be decided by other factors. One way to look at them, reflected in our CEE AI Action Plan, is to think in terms of five pillars: infrastructure, data, human capital, regulation and financing. It […]

After the announcement of the Digital Omnibus, which also contains some targeted and much-awaited changes to EU data protection rules, a somewhat expected wave of activist hysteria hit Brussels once again. “Selling Europeans’ rights to Big Tech”, “the biggest GDPR rollback in EU history” – it’s a narrative that brilliantly generates emotions and clicks on […]

A few days have passed since the European Commission published the so-called “Digital Omnibus on AI” as part of the “Digital Simplification Package”, which also includes proposed amendments to the GDPR, the NIS2 Directive and the Data Act. This is a good moment to recall one often overlooked dimension of deregulation. It is not only […]

Central and Eastern European (CEE) nations have achieved remarkable economic convergence with Western Europe since joining the EU. The region’s two-decade sprint from post-socialist economies to the EU’s high-tech factory floor was breathtaking. But the growth model of being the “extended workbench” for Western industry is hitting a hard ceiling. The strategy of making things […]