A bit emotional myself about it 👏

Second commitment decision under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (#fsr)! Interesting to see that the Commission appears to have used its balancing powers for the first time to approve this transactions ("the benefit to the market operators stemming from the access to Covestro sustainability […]

🚨 Reminder 🚨 3️⃣ more weeks for the call for papers on 𝗘𝗨 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗨 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆! More info 👇 and on our website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/business-and-law/news-and-events/events/eu-digital-sovereignty/ #digitalsovereignty […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🚨 Reminder 🚨 3️⃣ more weeks for the call for papers on 𝗘𝗨 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗨 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆! More info 👇 and on our website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/business-and-law/news-and-events/events/eu-digital-sovereignty/ #digitalsovereignty […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

On the BBC resignations: “the row obscures … what is … a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Clown show. That "over €8.6billion" nonsense.

At one level today has been professionally good - it's rare to be quoted in FT https://www.ft.com/content/1405495d-5de2-4766-bb69-d9c2b84fd43a and The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/high-speed-european-rail-network-could-be-possible-by-2040 But the Commission's high […]

In an ideal world, these #dronesightings would be free training for our counterdrone measures #Brusselsairport

WTF: “European Commission eyes codifying ‘legitimate interest’ as legal basis for Ai training” […]

How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

WTF: “European Commission eyes codifying ‘legitimate interest’ as legal basis for Ai training” […]

Es geht auch ohne Google .. #Linux Laptop #IBM #ThinkPad T490 #libreOffice

Er beweegt wat in het parkeerbeleid in Brussel. In januari wordt straatparkeren aanzienlijk duurder in heel Molenbeek (voor bezoekers dan toch). Koekelberg en St.-Agatha-Berchem voeren dan weer betalend parkeren in en schaffen de blauwe zone af. Het beleid wordt dus veel restrictiever.

As part of this digital story, provide clear, enforcable rules please. Either you abide by them, or you're out/suspended/limited (not only fines: data deletion, etc.) bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/eu...

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European #opensource alternative. #eupol https://www.euractiv.com/news/international-criminal-court-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-european-open-source-alternative/

'La démission de David Leisterh n'est pas seulement une fin. C'est un signal d'alarme, peut-être le dernier, avant la déliquescence. Bruxelles n'a plus besoin de formateurs ou de démineurs ; elle a besoin de sauveurs.'

European Commission @EUCommission and Der Bundestag @bundestag are on the open and free Fediverse. When will we see l'Assemblée National, l'Élysée, das Bundeskanzleramt and the European Parliament follow suit? #digitalsovereignty https://videum.eu/video/1aK

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/115444882150266722 Very very very very very, did I say very?, nice.

“Any politician who seriously doubts that the current US government could use AWS, Azure, and Google as a political lever is deceiving themselves and the public. … If Europe doesn't finally get moving, the AWS outage was just a mild breeze compared to what the old world can predictably expect.”

"Atlas offers an “incognito” mode that doesn’t add to your history or memories. But like Chrome’s misleadingly named mode, it doesn’t actually hide you from other websites or even from ChatGPT itself" all over again, only worse. What are our DPAs debating, these days?

@leanderlindahl "Why do I speak to the European Commission, or the Swedish government, or the German government, on Microsoft’s Teams? Is there no collaboration software in Europe the public administration could buy? Of course there is. So one starting point, but an essential one, needs to be […]

"Nearly all European data is held in US cloud environments. Cyberattacks or plain outages that hit US suppliers immediately disrupt European governments and businesses." #digitalsovereignty […]

🏛️ We have just arrived at @Curia! 💼 Today, our lawyer, Dr. Martin Husovec, will explain to the court why #DMA #interoperability should apply to #Apple in full extent! 👀 Stay tuned for updates! And if you need a quick recap of what's at stake for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🧑‍⚖️ The hearing is about to begin! 👀 Representatives from #apple, @EUCommission and the European Parliament, as policymakers from Germany and industry representatives, are all here at @Curia 💥 This is BIG 💥 :fsfe: The FSFE's lawyer will have 10 minutes to explain to Court why #dma requires […]

Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and Authority for Financial Markets (AFM) push for more #DigitalSovereignty: “If the geopolitical situation continues to deteriorate, Europe will become a puppet in the hands of other power blocs without its own developed technology sector.” www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo...

The European Commission today published its “Cloud Sovereignty Framework”, which defines criteria to assess the sovereignty of cloud services across strategic, legal, operational, and technological dimensions. It is to be used in particular in public tender procedures […]

A side entrance of the Old Courthouse in Antwerp shows two ancient signs: "WAR JUSTICE" and "PEACE JUSTICE". I walk past those almost every day, but I've never paid much attention to them. Today, suddenly, it gave me the shivers. (These signs translate as […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I am organizing an Academic Workshop on EU Law for Digital Sovereignty at the University of Antwerp in March 2026. Check out the call for papers via the link below. Deadline: 30 November 2025 […]

Anthropic stole the books I co-wrote in order to train their planet-burning hallucination machine, so I've filed a claim. They wept that if every plagiarised author does so, the company will go bankrupt. Boo emdash hoo. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

I am organizing an Academic Workshop on EU Law for Digital Sovereignty at the University of Antwerp in March 2026. Check out the call for papers via the link below. Deadline: 30 November 2025 […]

When I saw this headline, I thought the article was going to argue that the Romans had settled in North America a thousand years before L'Anse aux Meadows... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/new-orleans-ancient-roman-grave-marker

[Female nudity] Symbolist fresco in the hall of the Hotel Hannon, Brussels (1904)

Bravo Moldova! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/moldova-election-result-boosts-move-towards-eu-away-from-moscow?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

To anyone voting at the embassy of #moldova in Brussels today, go and visit the “Fire” #exhibition almost next door! https://villaempain.com/en/expo/fire/

If Big Tech companies increasingly "ignore rules that have been established in a democratic way or openly delay them in every possible way," what shall we do, asks Martijn Snoep? Banning services should also be on the table, agree www.acm.nl/nl/publicati...

Will the Commission be intervening sua sponte before the national judge?

"future technologies can be monopolised by even more unscrupulous actors. And nobody’s going to speak up to them. So I think that’s another reason why it’s so important to take a principled stand here" @dacemoglumit.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/j%C3%B...

A quotation from **Montesquieu** > Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour’s reading did not eliminate. > > _[L’étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n’ayant jamais […]

America’s current stance is the US should hurt Brazil’s economy and prop up Argentina’s economy. The entire reason is that the US president and his fans like the leader of Argentina—or a successful version of him they made up—and dislike that Brazil upheld its laws against a coup plotter they like.

The academic year is starting today at the University of Antwerp: fresh faces getting ready to grow and thrive! #academia

Reason number 5728 to build up the European military industrial base www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

How To Bridge Bluesky To Mastodon (7:37) #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky

Nice: The Austrian military is switching to Libre Office. #digitalsovereignty

In light of @pallenberg having content about Jimmy Kimmel removed from LinkedIn, I've written about the topic of Europeans problematic use of US commercial social networks in the era of Trump […]

I am a #microsoft native, starting my digital life with MSDOS and Windows 3.1. For 10 years, I have had a OneDrive subscription. But this week I cancelled my personal MS 365 subscription after moving my private files to an EU-based #nextcloud provider. This is part of my efforts to reduce my […]

Wow, only a day after the $15 billion lawsuit against the #nytimes , another major independent media company is bullied into suspending one of its star shows (#jimmykimmel). At this speed, the #firstamendment can be revoked by the end of the year.

Public service media can thrive, also in the future. It “only” takes stable funding, independence from politics, collaboration, savvy tech infrastructure investments, ‘must carry and promote’ obligations for platforms and the best, trustworthy journalistic standards. Just that. Conlusions from ⬇️

"The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is examining the practices of Google and Microsoft where they bundle AI solutions with office suites" www.financialexpress.com/business/ind... #verticalrestriction - almost dead letter in the EU...

I've been working on my #digitalsovereignty This week I cancelled my Google One and Onedrive subscriptions. Now that I've got my home server backing up to Backblaze (with encryption!), I have all the redundancy I need.