{"id":30529,"date":"2025-04-18T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30529\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:21:08","slug":"starmer-must-stop-cosying-up-to-trump-on-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30529\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer must stop cosying up to Trump on tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tSenior MEP Sandro Gozi warns Prime Minister against following Donald Trump’s light-touch approach to AI rules\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

The European Parliament\u2019s Brexit reset lead has warned Sir Keir Starmer not to align with Donald Trump<\/a> on regulation of artificial intelligence \u2013 amid warnings that a UK-US trade deal could harm Britain\u2019s renewed ties with the EU.<\/p>\n

Sandro Gozi told The i Paper that failing to agree a common EU-British approach on AI would be a \u201cmissed opportunity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The senior MEP said a \u201ccommon approach\u201d on the policy is \u201cmore important\u201d in the long term than the security and defence pact under discussion as part of the Brexit reset.<\/p>\n

This week The i Paper revealed that EU officials are in \u201cconstant contact\u201d with their British counterparts to warn of the \u201climits\u201d a UK-US trade deal may place<\/a> on the Prime Minister\u2019s bid to forge closer ties with Brussels.<\/p>\n

Starmer has been warned that he might struggle to keep his promise not to choose between the EU and the United States.<\/p>\n

Arificial intelligence is a central plank of the Prime Minister\u2019s proposed economic deal with Trump. The UK is believed to be offering to align with America\u2019s lighter-touch approach to regulating this and other technologies, in the hope of securing an agreement which reduces US tariffs on British cars, metals and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n

\"\" Sandro Gozi is the Brexit lead for the European Parliament (Photo: Dursun Aydemir\/Anadolu)<\/p>\n

Starmer has already joined the US in refusing to sign the Paris AI summit declaration<\/a>, delayed new laws to regulate the technology, and announced plans to change the name of Britain\u2019s AI Safety Institute to focus more on security. US Vice President JD Vance had criticised \u201chand-wringing about safety\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gozi, an ally of French President Emmanuel Macron, chairs the European delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly.<\/p>\n

He has proposed that a UK-EU deal on AI form part of Starmer\u2019s reset of relations with Brussels, which is currently focused on a defence agreement, boosting trade ties, and easier movement of people between the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n

He argued that it was in the \u201ccommon interest\u201d of the two sides to agree \u201ccommon principles\u201d and \u201cpossible common standards we want to see worldwide\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gozi said he held talks with Trump\u2019s adviser on AI in the White House, as well as in US Congress, which made clear to him that America is against any regulation of the technology.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThey think that any principles, any common standard, any common approach to AI, could be an obstacle in their race against China.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t know what the UK wants \u2013 if the UK wants to go towards far-west AI Trump-style, or globalwide where we want to set some principles which of course do not pre-empt innovation but they start to organise AI around some common standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the UK thinks any common principle, common approach is absolutely to avoid, like Trump, good luck. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the right approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if that could damage the goodwill the Starmer Government has built up with the EU, Gozi replied: \u201cDamage, I would say, we go too far.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is certainly an obvious opportunity to enhance our partnership. We talk about defence and security, of course, but this is as important, even more important in the long term.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo certainly it would be a missed opportunity if they go along the Trump road, which is no principles at all on AI, far-west.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anand Menon, director of think tank UK In A Changing Europe, said: \u201cThe Prime Minister insists he will not choose between Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cPressure from the US to align with American rather than European standards may make that promise hard to keep.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior MEP Sandro Gozi warns Prime Minister against following Donald Trump’s light-touch approach to AI rules The European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1942,802,748,32,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,3027,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-30529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-politics-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114359650532304040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}