ITRE MEPs to want specifics on how Commissioner designates will handle cloud, telecoms, competitiveness

ITRE MEPs want to hear concrete plans of how the Commissioners-Designate plan to bring VDL’s vision for Europe to fruition.

Europe launches its first space commissioner straight into a budget scrap

Despite not having much experience on space, Andrius Kubilius is tipped to be running EU rocket and satellite policy.

The whoโ€™s who of the Parliamentโ€™s tech committees

Many familiar faces are returning to the European Parliament’s committees that deal with tech policies, but several key figures have also left the Parliament or the committees.

EU officials pitch EU space law as a competitiveness driver

In a bid to cast the upcoming EU space law in a favourable light, Commission officials pitched it as a competitiveness driver for the continent’s industry during the European Space Forum in Brussels.

TikTok suspends reward program, Bolt tried to influence platform work directive

Welcome to Euractivโ€™s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.

Space agency director thinks EU space law would have GDPR-style outsized impact

A European space law would bring benefits that would ripple outside EU borders, Rodrigo da Costa, executive director at the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) said in an interview with Euractiv.

EU looks towards future space law, launcher alliance and threat awareness strategy

With an EU space rulebook in the works, Europeans should already look at the space programme’s next generation, including a launcher demand aggregator, and threat mapping strategy, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Tuesday (23 January).