What can we expect for the year ahead? 🇪🇺
This week, President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the State of the Union address, laying out the concrete steps that will shape Europe’s future. As we move from promise to progress, our core priorities are:
🛡️ Security & Defence
🤝 Support for Ukraine
🚀 Competitiveness & AI innovation
📱 Social Media & child safety online
More info: https://link.europa.eu/v9vtvh
As a parent and EU citizen, @EUCommission's take on age verification worries me:
- My insight: gatekeeping social media through ID-based age verification methods creates new privacy, security, and freedom-of-speech risks for ALL, but will fail protecting KIDS in any meaningful way.
- Why: 1/You underestimate the chilling effect an ID-verified internet will have on trade unionists, activists, whistleblowers, and more broadly on anyone who wants to share their views online.