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17.07 2026
№ 79
CRA Compliance ENISA SME Software Development EU Regulation

A Score Is Not Proof of Conformity

An Advanced rating measures an organisation’s maturity. It does not show that a specific product conforms to the CRA. The distinction is not self-assessment versus outside scrutiny. It is diagnosis versus a declaration that carries responsibility.

10′ reading time
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09.07 2026
№ 78
AI Act Compliance GDPR NIS2 Cyber Resilience Act EU Regulation Digital Health

Seventeen Months Are Not a Grace Period

The Digital Omnibus pushed the AI Act's high-risk obligations to 2027, and healthcare software breathed a sigh of relief. But the pressure never came from that deadline: it comes from three clocks, enforcement, engineering and the market, and none of them was touched.

9′ reading time
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04.07 2026
№ 77
Compliance AI Act CRA PLD EU Regulation Software Development SME

Compliance Doesn't Fail for Lack of Rules, It Fails for Lack of Inventory

Five European regulations, written by different hands for different sectors, are converging on the same demand: prove you know what you have in the house. Whoever can't answer isn't non-compliant, they're ungovernable. And the inventory that's needed isn't compiled: it's generated.

7′ reading time
1,416 words
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30.06 2026
№ 76
AI Digital Sovereignty Philosophy of Technology AI Act China Politics of Technology Compliance

The Name of the Future

On artificial intelligence as a political fact before a technical one, on the translation that never quite lands, and on what a country loses when it imports the words along with the machines.

11′ reading time
2,433 words
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24.06 2026
№ 75
Digital Sovereignty Open Source Supply Chain Cybersecurity EU Regulation CRA Compliance

Sovereignty Doesn't Live in the Data Center

On the Cloud and AI Development Act, on the ten thousand repositories dressed up as honest projects, and on the distance between being inspectable and actually being inspected.

13′ reading time
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17.06 2026
№ 74
AI Act Compliance EU Regulation AI SME GDPR Digital Sovereignty

The Digital Omnibus Is Not an Amnesty

Brussels moved a few AI Act deadlines and confirmed everything else. For a small or mid-sized IT company that had just started getting serious about compliance, this is the moment to accelerate, not to slow down.

14′ reading time
2,915 words
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16.06 2026
№ 73
Antitrust Meta AI Act EU Regulation Digital Sovereignty AI DMA

Before It Becomes Irreparable

On June 9 the Commission ordered Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI assistants within five days. It is the rarest interim measure in European competition law, and it is a meditation on time disguised as an administrative order.

10′ reading time
2,210 words
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10.06 2026
№ 72
DMA Apple Digital Sovereignty Privacy Politics OF Technology

Other People's Privacy

Apple says it can't bring Siri AI to Europe because it has to protect our privacy. The technical problem it invokes is real. The way it uses that problem is not—and the press release is a round of ammunition in a war that has stopped being merely regulatory.

15′ reading time
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04.06 2026
№ 71
Fatherhood Family Generations

In Deeds, Not Words

My father never once told me he loved me. He showed me, and that was all, and it took me forty years and a child of my own to understand it. For once I am not writing about code or European rules.

6′ reading time
1,362 words
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27.05 2026
№ 69
AI AI Act Digital Sovereignty Compliance Ethics Humanism

The Human Is a Stance

I am an atheist, I come from philosophy, I work in European compliance. Leo XIV's first encyclical on artificial intelligence is not something I signed, it is something I argued with. And I found in it a vocabulary that Brussels still lacks.

10′ reading time
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