
EU Eyes Aircraft Carrier, Missile Shield, and Space Infrastructure
The EU has “no other choice” but to significantly increase its defense budget after 2025, Commissioner Breton said, suggesting a joint war fleet and missile defense network.

The EU has “no other choice” but to significantly increase its defense budget after 2025, Commissioner Breton said, suggesting a joint war fleet and missile defense network.

The architect of the EU’s online content edict is reportedly starting his bid for the Commission’s presidency, courting centrist allies in the Parliament, disposing of rivals, and consolidating power.

The EU has become fully reliant on Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, to get its satellites into orbit, while its regulators hope to bring the hammer down on Musk this month over hate speech regulation on Twitter.

Echoing remarks from French President Emmanuel Macron, a European Union Commissioner has suggested that social media platforms could be shut down if they fail to remove content that incites rioting and urban unrest in the wake of the French riots this month.

Commission VP Věra Jourová urged that AI-generated information be labeled as such, and that restrictions be put on AI technology from being used to generate disinformation.

There are “technical limitations to what’s possible,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, hinting that his company might have to leave Europe if Brussels remains unwilling to compromise.

Larger platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are to ensure that mechanisms are in place which would prevent ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive content’ from going viral.

The EU is sitting on about a third of the lithium it needs in the next ten years if it is going to reach its goals for using electric cars and wind and solar energy.

In a video message, together with EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, Musk declared they had a “great discussion” and that the EU is “exactly aligned with my thinking.”