Welcome to Euractiv’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.
While most politicians and lawmakers have been discussing enlargement prospects for the EU, others have quietly worked to bring together EU citizens and their European neighbours in a much more technical but tangible way: telecommunications.
This week, DG CNECT announced its restructuring for the AI Office, while the file on fighting online child sexual abuse material finally seemed to make some headway.
Telecoms giant Orange has published a manifesto for the European elections, urging lawmakers to pursue a fully functioning Single Market in the Digital Decade. Orange explains how the EU can become the best place to live in the Digital Age.
The European Commission accepted on Tuesday (20 February the €18.6 billion deal between Orange and MásMóvil in Spain, provided that spectrum bandwidths are divested to the Romanian mobile operator Digi.
The Commission announced a consultation on EU's telecom market, open until June and committed to a post-quantum cryptography recommendation, when presenting its connectivity package.
Commissioner Thierry Breton supported the need to find a financing model for investment in the EU telecom sector and advocated for more control and security in its infrastructure in view of the sector's growing geopolitical significance and competition with the US and China.
