NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET
NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET

NATO has signed strategic cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET, formalising what the alliance describes as non-commercial agreements to strengthen collective resilience in cyberspace. The partnerships were announced o…

Germany and Spain push back on Brussels’ plans to ban Huawei gear bloc-wide
Germany and Spain push back on Brussels’ plans to ban Huawei gear bloc-wide

Berlin and Madrid are resisting the European Commission’s push for binding legislation on Huawei and ZTE, citing Beijing-retaliation risk and the cost of AI-infrastructure build-out. Germany and Spain are leading opposition inside the European Council …

Schaeffler and Spire pair up to build sovereign European satellites in Germany
Schaeffler and Spire pair up to build sovereign European satellites in Germany

The 80-year-old bearings maker and the US-listed satellite firm have signed an MoU to industrialise Spire’s 100-satellite-a-year Munich plant for European defence customers. Schaeffler AG, the German precision-engineering company best known for the bea…

Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned
Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned

China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the…

ECB tells eurozone banks to tighten cyber-security as AI shifts the threat picture
ECB tells eurozone banks to tighten cyber-security as AI shifts the threat picture

The European Central Bank has formally told eurozone banks they must tighten their cyber-security posture in response to AI-led attack tools, in a follow-up statement issued on Wednesday that turns earlier private guidance into something closer to a su…

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions
Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the …

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …

Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms
Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms

The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission is preparing to reserve two-thirds of the bloc’s fut…

Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences
Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences

A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and …

Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google
Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under th…