I really wish that the European Commission + member states integrated the narrative about fostering innovation with the good old speeches about protecting digital rights and sustainability. Because at the moment this conversation is looking like a blank check for the private sector.

The EU strategy for fostering sovereignty is about providing funds to foster innovation but ITS ALSO about making sure regulations are not overburdening for companies. And thereno acknowledgement that these efforts - incl. the omnibus - will benefit actors that have not complied with EU legislations

The good old fallacy that protecting rights can hinder innovation being deployed as the baseline for the deregulation efforts. The lack of rights protecting groups and civil society at the Summit are a good reinforcement of that (only Article 19 and Sovereign tech Agency are speaking).

Little to no interventions about market concentration of digital services, and a rather contradictory line from Commission Representatives about how the EU is fighting concentration while reminding the industry that the Omnibus efforts might not end tomorrow. Aka. we can expect more simplification

While following the sessions I noticed the following:

Way too many nods to how the US is fostering its innovation sector with very few guardrails to industry: a confirmation that the movement on sovereignty here in the EU is more about ensuring competitiveness than breaking up big tech monopoly;

E como a linha de questionamentos sobre a validade de regulações como o AI Act ou o DSA, e no brasil a recente decisão do STF, parece ser uma nova e sedimentada diretriz de politica externa de Trump.

Em ambas conversas destaquei a linha de completo desrespeito por decisoes soberanas legitimas adotadas por instituições brasileiras, e a forçada de barra do governo americano ao utilizar a aplicação de tarifas para tentar emplacar a agenda "desregulatoria" ao redor do mundo.

E com a @laismartins.com, do @intercept.com.br, sobre furo dela e da Tatiana Dias, sobre o fato do documento/investigação ter sido aberto por uma advogada que anteriormente atuava como lobista das empresas de big tech no capitólio.

www.intercept.com.br/2025/07/21/i...

Together w/ @cdteu.bsky.social @beuc.eu @ecnl.bsky.social and other signatories, we call on the EU Commission to refrain from opening the AI Act and therefore undermining hard-won fundamental rights protections in the EU digital acquis.