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AI Gigafactories: What is really at stake?
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 […]
AI Chamber submits Open Letter on Digital Omnibus
AI Chamber has submitted an open letter, co-signed by 12 leading business organisations from across Central and Eastern Europe, calling on the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament to not just uphold, but significantly strengthen and expand the European Commission’s proposal of the “Digital Omnibus” package. On 19 November 2025, the European […]
GDPR Brussels Matrix
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 […]
Lost in legal language: SMEs and the AI Act
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 […]