{"id":34075,"date":"2026-05-07T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/34075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:48:11","slug":"eu-clinches-deal-to-roll-back-ai-restrictions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/34075\/","title":{"rendered":"EU clinches deal to roll back AI restrictions \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cypriot presidency of the Council of the EU and the European Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/07\/artificial-intelligence-council-and-parliament-agree-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed the agreement<\/a> following negotiations that started on Wednesday evening and lasted until around 4.30 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-eu-ai-law-machinery-exemption-industrial-rewrite\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier Wednesday<\/a> that EU countries had backed Germany&#8217;s demand to avoid a double regulatory burden for companies using industrial AI \u2014 they will now only have to comply with AI requirements under separate machinery rules.<\/p>\n<p>Other industries under discussion including medical devices were not exempted and will still be covered by the AI law, negotiators confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The deal marks the first significant rollback of rules in the digital space, as the EU faces pressure from the U.S. over its tech laws and amid warnings from its own industry and governments that strict restrictions had put the bloc at a disadvantage in a global AI race.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the deal, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it \u201cprovides a simple, innovation-friendly environment\u201d for AI in Europe. \u201cAt the same time, we are strengthening protections for our citizens. For safe and simple AI governance in Europe,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2052266914349449385?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said on X<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2052266914349449385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>As well as delaying restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027, the deal gives companies a grace period on meeting new requirements to watermark AI-generated content, but that grace period will only be three months rather than the six months originally proposed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cypriot presidency of the Council of the EU and the European Parliament confirmed the agreement following negotiations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[3239,78,2775,1486,2777,3598,258,2828,92,98,99,11838,11839,237,102,450,3358,834,45,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-34075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-european-parliament","8":"tag-algorithms","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-big-data","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-data-protection","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-european-parliament","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-industry","18":"tag-intelligence","19":"tag-internet-governance","20":"tag-internet-search","21":"tag-medical-devices","22":"tag-meps","23":"tag-privacy","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}