Henna Virkkunen

Major technology leaders converged on the White House on Tuesday for a luncheon with President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson as calls for an artificial intelligence slowdown and regulation reach a fever pitch

Readers discuss how the city should shield children from social media’s harmful effects, and the public healthcare system

Spain declassified documents that showed warnings issued a day before more than 70,000 migrants rushed the Ceuta border fence

With the high-stakes meeting just weeks away and tech tensions escalating, Beijing uses a G20 ministerial forum to advocate collaboration on the emerging technology

The Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE), and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs)

The US Justice Department sued TikTok in 2024 over allegations that it violated children's online privacy laws

When a cybersecurity experiment goes wrong, the public response is predictable: Find out who is responsible, punish them, compensate the victims and make sure it never happens again

Right-wing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and center-left Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday reiterated their push to combat illegal migration after thousands of unauthorized migrants surged into Spanish exclave Ceuta in late July

Spain imposes border controls against Italy as Ceuta migration spat escalates

The White House has completed a long-awaited voluntary framework for evaluating the nation's most advanced artificial intelligence models, meeting a deadline established by President Donald Trump's June executive order

Jon Hendricks speaks with technology analyst Carmi Levy about a recent incident involving OpenAI's model hocking another company's system without being directed

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant

The European Union on Friday, July 24, accused TikTok of failing to protect children since their account settings expose them to risks like cyberbullying and predatory behavior, putting the company at risk of a large fine

Google has been fined €890m (£759m) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power by favouring its own apps and services over those from rivals

Beijing expressed “strong dissatisfaction and serious concern” on Wednesday, urging the European Union to treat Chinese companies fairly after Brussels slapped e-commerce platform AliExpress with a €550 million (US$630 million) fine for breaching the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA)

Last year, Brussels issued a $120 million penalty for Elon Musk’s social media site X

Market regulator expected to close investigation into top online travel service provider, with potential fines running into billions of yuan

The Commission's order identifies 11 specific feature points spanning four broad categories where Google must grant equal access to rivals

The European Commission has officially recommended ending grant funding for the Venice Biennale over the opening of the Russian pavilion

Meta has been found in preliminary breach of the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) after regulators concluded that several design features on Instagram and Facebook encourage excessive use and fail to adequately protect children and vulnerable users

Researchers traced these contracts as far back as 2013, when they hovered under $50m, and found a steady increase over time — with a bigger jump over the last two years

The European Commission has unveiled a strategy to put the EU on a path to digital sovereignty

European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen stressed the strategic importance of technological development

The 27-nation bloc unveiled a “tech sovereignty” package on Wednesday with measures to promote homegrown European alternatives to Big Tech services and hardware

The European Union has imposed a €200m ($232m; £173m) fine on Chinese-owned online retailer Temu for having illegal products such as dangerous baby toys and faulty chargers for sale on its platform

The decision risks angering Washington as it will limit the frequencies available to U.S. companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon Leo, and curtail their fast expansion

The EU executive is also exploring a possible bloc-wide age limit on social media after coming under intense pressure to take broader action following Australia's groundbreaking ban on using such platforms for under-16s

Big Tech faces crackdown as governments tighten rules to shield children from online harm

Americans traveling to Europe are now encountering major changes at border crossings as the European Union’s long‑planned Entry/Exit System (EES) has officially come into force

Marie Le Tiec was 15 when she ended her life in 2021

Brussels targets big porn platforms over child safety concerns

The Russian art collective Pussy Riot, several members of which have first-hand knowledge of just how little tolerance the Putin regime has for self-expression, was among the first to express its outrage at the scale of the international community’s collective amnesia about the Kremlin’s crimes and argued strongly against allowing its return to the art world’s most prestigious event

Spain rejects use of bases, UK hesitates and EU leaders urge de-escalation

Close Shein protestors removed from opening of first store

Ukraine has begun planning presidential elections alongside a referendum on any peace deal with Russia, after the Trump administration pressed Kyiv to hold both votes by May 15th or risk losing proposed US security guarantees

Fear of Russia and doubts about US sparked surge in European defence projects

The European Union anti-cyberbullying initiative comes as countries around the world consider curbing children's social media access because of its impact on their health and safety

South Korea has the second-highest number of paid ChatGPT users in the world — just behind the U.S., which has 290 million more people than the peninsula

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has backed a push to favour European firms over foreign rivals in "strategic" fields, ahead of a leaders' meeting on boosting the bloc's competitiveness

The comments signal an effort to counter the narrative of Europe’s overreliance on U.S. technology

The European Commission set out its charges in preliminary findings to TikTok following a year-long investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content

2025 was a decisive year in the evolution of the transatlantic energy relationship

Mr Hololei was negotiating an aviation agreement with Qatar when the alleged gifts were accepted

Baptiste calls for EU-wide effort on satellite autonomy

The scrutiny from Brussels comes after Grok sparked a global backlash by allowing users through its AI image generation and editing capabilities to undress people, putting females in transparent bikinis or revealing clothing

Virkkunen is tasked with addressing the security threats facing the European Union, while also strengthening the 27-member bloc's external borders and its internal security

In a long-running debate, European telecom companies want "fair share" payments from tech giants like Netflix for the large amounts of bandwidth they use

The European Union plans to phase out telecom gear from companies in "high risk" countries, targeting Chinese firms like Huawei and ZTE