{"id":506161,"date":"2025-10-17T06:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506161\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T06:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:44:23","slug":"pendulum-has-swung-way-too-far-on-eu-regulating-tech-says-german-minister-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506161\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pendulum has swung way too far\u2019 on EU regulating tech, says German minister \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German minister\u2019s trip comes as the European Commission is drafting proposals to roll back some of its digital legislation, a core part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-double-down-deregulation-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission President Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s deregulation drive<\/a>. The package \u2014 called the digital omnibus \u2014 is intended to help businesses navigate EU tech regulation more easily and is expected to be presented Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>A month out from the proposals, the German government is still finalizing its position on how to cut back some of the EU\u2019s thorniest tech rules, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-prepares-ground-pause-artificial-intelligence-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whether to pause the implementation of its landmark Artificial Intelligence Act<\/a>, Wildberger said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the issues <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/whos-afraid-of-the-digital-omnibus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Commission has suggested<\/a> will be covered in the omnibus are how the EU regulates data, cybersecurity reporting and the bloc\u2019s flagship artificial intelligence laws, which have been under fire from both governments and industry. The consultation to provide input closed on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Touting the visit as an opportunity to discuss the omnibus, Wildberger met with the Commission\u2019s Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen, who is in charge of the push to simplify tech rules. He also met Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath, who oversees the EU\u2019s General\u00a0Data Protection\u00a0Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>A former business executive in charge of brands including MediaMarkt, Wildberger took office in May as minister in charge of digitalization and government modernization.<\/p>\n<p>Europe has \u201csome homework to do\u201d to \u201ctake some of the burdens, the regulation away,\u201d Wildberger said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t address the risks, but we have to become much more practical and efficient,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German minister\u2019s trip comes as the European Commission is drafting proposals to roll back some of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[3721,1942,7960,1442,72109,12490,2814,7963,6511,21469,2000,299,1824,6849,806,1302,16138,7965,6512,2443],"class_list":{"0":"post-506161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-algorithms","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-big-data","11":"tag-competition","12":"tag-consumer-policy","13":"tag-content-moderation","14":"tag-data","15":"tag-data-flows","16":"tag-data-protection","17":"tag-digital-services-act","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-henna-virkkunen","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-innovation","24":"tag-internet-governance","25":"tag-platforms","26":"tag-privacy","27":"tag-regulation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115388158074865402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506161","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=506161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}