Directly elected legislative body of the EU, co-deciding laws with the Council on matters including digital policy, tech regulation, and online safety.
EU finance ministers agreed on Oct. 9 to put the largest crypto providers under direct ESMA supervision, an estimated 10 to 15 of roughly 360. The Council's text is far narrower than the Commission's plan to move every provider under ESMA.
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European Parliament adopted a nonbinding call for the Commission's end-2026 anti-corruption strategy to cover crypto assets and hidden ownership. It imposes no new duties on crypto firms, crypto.news reported, so what they spend depends on the Commission's text.
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Brussels is weighing a flat charge on every company with more than €100 million in EU revenue, in any sector, to avoid Trump's threatened tariffs. A uniform lump sum spread that widely would cost the most, per euro of sales, for the firms nearest the threshold.
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Eurozone businesses must accept the digital euro by 2029, a free payment option aimed at the 47% of card payment value that Visa and Mastercard process. Adyen, a pilot member, says merchant demand is still thin, so the networks are likelier to feel it in their fees before their share.
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The Commission president's September 16 speech named model-enabled intrusion as a sharpening risk and pointed to the AI Act as the guardrail, while the new bills she promised cover children's feeds and jobs.
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Canada already joins pieces of the EU education program as an unassociated third country. Whether full participation reaches students who cannot otherwise afford to go depends on how the funding is designed.
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The Commission's A-to-G scheme covers every EU site above 500 kilowatts and enters force as a delegated regulation, with member states and the Parliament given two months to object and no power to amend. First labels come in 2027.
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Albanian activists documenting three months of protests lost Instagram accounts to copyright complaints. More than 30 members of the European Parliament want Brussels to examine whether Meta breached the Digital Services Act.
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The Parliament, Commission and Council signed it in Brussels on June 18, 2026, giving culture's impact on health a named place among 12 principles. The cited evidence is expert reports and two decades of museum programming.
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Von der Leyen's Strasbourg speech announced a heatwave plan, a European Security Council and associate membership for Canada. Her AI and children's social media items came as subject headings.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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The Commission's single Public Procurement Act makes best price-quality ratio the default, with quality worth at least 30% of the score and 50% on labour-intensive contracts, and it lets being European count as one of those quality factors.
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Thomas Skordas told a European Parliament session that the act is not about budget, then said Europe expects a little consolidation, which leaves founders coordination on offer and payroll exactly where it was.
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A letter signed Friday turns device forensics on Serbian student activists into an enlargement demand, though the signatory who spoke to CyberScoop says spyware will not be the deciding factor if Brussels moves.
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His memo wants an AI tax, jobs reserved for people and new institutions to manage the transition. Europe left the tax out of its 2017 robotics vote, so the part that travels is his claim that the industry crossed its own safety lines.
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France's under-15 ban starts on 1 September with the clause naming a regulator removed, and New Zealand's 16-plus bill carries a 10 percent global revenue penalty it cannot pass. Product teams get both.
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