Policy & Law
16.09.2025

The View from Brussels # 34

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 36 (01-07.09.2025)

Supercomputer: The JUPITER supercomputer at the Jülich Research Centre has been officially inaugurated. JUPITER has officially become the first European system to achieve the exascale threshold.

Media: The European Commission has published the European media industry outlook.

AI: The European Commission has launched a consultation to develop guidelines and Code of Practice on transparent AI systems.

Data Protection: The General Court has dismissed an action in the Latombe v Commission case (T-553/23) for annulment of the new framework for the transfer of personal data between the European Union and the United States. On the date of adoption of the contested decision, the US ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to organisations in the US.

Technology sector: According to a report, only a tenth of the tech recommendations from Draghi’s report on EU competitiveness have been implemented after one year.

Data Act: Despite industry demands for a two-year delay, the EU Commission wants to stick to the existing timeline for implementing the Data Act.

Age checks: Heise reports on discussions in the EU Parliament on the introduction of an EU-wide solution to age verification on the Internet. No clear line has yet been discerned.

Transatlantic relations: Resistance is forming in the European Parliament against the trade agreement with the US. In the context of the US’s ongoing attacks on the EU’s digital regulations, Henna Virkkunen has defended the DSA and the DMA in an open letter to Jim Jordan. After the EU Commission imposed a fine of €2.95 billion on Google for abusing EU competition rules in the advertising technology market, Donald Trump threatened new tariffs. The decision, originally scheduled for Monday, had initially been postponed, which has led to considerable criticism.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

(until 12.09.2025)

Selections of the CW 37 (08-14.09.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 21.09.2025 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

This week, there are no Council meetings of relevance to the Internet industry.

Preparatory Bodies:

 

An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.

Commission:

You can find the agenda of the current Commission meeting of 09.09.2025 here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: 2025 Strategic Foresight Report Resilience 2.0: Empowering the EU to thrive amid turbulence and uncertainty
  • Communication to the Commission on the notification to requesting Member States of the allocation of the loan amounts pursuant to Council Regulation 2025/1106

Parliament:

Plenary Sittings (STRA)

The agenda for the current plenary sittings week can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

Here you can find a list of the upcoming dates of the European Parliament. The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2025 is available here (PDF).

Committees

LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)

No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled for this week.

The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.

 

JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)

No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled for this week.

The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 04.09.2025 can be found here.

The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 02.09.2025) can be found here.

IMCO Committee (Internal Market)

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs taking place on 08.09.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Public interface connected to the Internal Market Information System for the declaration of posting of workers and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012

The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 02.09.2025) can be found here.

CULT Committee (Culture and Education)

The agenda for the current meeting of the CULT Committee taking place on 08.09.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Exchange of views with Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu on the next

Multiannual Financial Framework programmes, in particular Erasmus+

The current timetables of the CULT Committee can be found here.

 

Outlook:

An overview of the following session weeks can be found here.

European Court of Justice

You can find the judicial calendar of the CJEU here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following proceedings are relevant:

  • For Wednesday, 10 September 2025, the judgment in the case Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission (T-55/24) is scheduled.
  • For Wednesday, 10 September 2025, the judgment in the case Tiktok Technology v Commission (T-58/24) is scheduled.
  • For Wednesday, 10 September 2025, the judgment in the case Telefónica Germany v EUIPO (LOOP) (T-497/24) is scheduled.
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