Τρίτη 01 Σεπτεμβρίου 2026
5 άρθρα
Brussels Holds Hungary’s Remaining €9 Billion
Budapest says it has satisfied all 27 conditions tied to its frozen recovery funds, including anti-corruption and judicial reforms. The claim now faces a Commission test: Hungary must submit its evidence by 30 September, and Brussels must decide by year-end whether the new safeguards work in practice or merely satisfy the rules on paper.
Greece’s €3bn shield hides its terms
Athens has chosen Israeli technology for a four-layer air-defence network due by July 2029, bypassing a competing European system. Parliament still lacks public figures for launchers, interceptors and lifetime costs, while undefined source-code rights leave open whether Greece will control critical software or remain dependent on Israeli vendors.
Romania’s wage deadlock puts €770m at risk
Romania has reached its EU recovery-plan deadline with a failed public-sector pay reform and unfinished coal closures. The Commission must now determine the final deductions: €458.7 million has already been definitively cut, another €770 million is expected to be lost, and coal delays could cost up to €100 million despite replacement heat and power capacity remaining unfinished.
ChatGPT enters EU’s toughest oversight tier
Brussels has classified ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as services whose scale demands independent scrutiny, not as proven rule-breakers. After each exceeded 45 million monthly EU users, they now have four months to establish risk assessments, external audits and researcher access—or face fines reaching 6% of worldwide annual turnover.
Big Tech taps Europe for €40 billion
Europe’s investors are increasingly financing America’s AI build-out as lower euro interest rates attract Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle. ECB analysts see no spillover yet, but warn that continued growth could divert institutional money from European borrowers and mechanically lift their financing costs as US tech gains weight in bond indices.