The law will build on existing EU initiatives, including the Quantum Europe Strategy, the Chips Act, and the EuroHPC high-performance computing programme. It is also linked to the EU’s work on secure quantum communication infrastructure through projects like EuroQCI.
An Advocate General of the CJEU has issued an opinion stating that national competition authorities may lawfully access employee emails without a court order, provided strong legal safeguards and proportionality checks are in place. The case, triggered by a challenge from Portuguese medical companies, raises important questions about the balance between privacy rights and competition-law enforcement across the EU.
CANN has announced the host cities for three upcoming public meetings, confirming events in Seville in June 2026, Muscat in October 2026, and Vancouver in June 2027.
France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are founding members of the new consortium.
The joint statement is endorsed by a wide range of organisations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, the European Environmental Bureau, the Clean Clothes Campaign, Friends of the Earth Europe, WWF’s European office, numerous trade-union federations, responsible-investment groups, and development NGOs from inside and outside the EU.
The new network is designed to support existing ASEAN bodies, notably the ASEAN Digital Senior Officials’ Meeting and the Working Group on AI Governance, by consolidating expertise, guiding policy development, promoting best practices and enabling collaboration with academia, civil society, industry and external partners.
The proposal aims to establish a comprehensive legal framework to support the country’s transition to a digital economy, digital government, and digital society.
The joint statement is supported by more than 20 organisations. The coalition emphasises that, while tackling cybercrime is important, global cooperation should not come at the expense of fundamental rights and freedoms.
The new consultation seeks community views on a roadmap to align the RDRS with broader efforts to develop a permanent System for Standardized Access/Disclosure. Feedback will help guide discussions between the ICANN Board and the Generic Names Supporting Organization as they reassess previous policy recommendations and consider next steps for managing access to domain holder information in a privacy-compliant way.
While the act sets out the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for AI, the report finds that its interaction with existing rules - including the GDPR, Data Act, Digital Services Act and Cyber Resilience Act - may create overlapping compliance obligations and legal uncertainty.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
