The European Union has denied that recent moves to reduce on planned technological regulation – mainly by abandoning the Directive on the responsibility of AI, a bill of 2022 which had aimed to facilitate the pursuit of damage caused by products Compatible with AI and services – were made in response to the Trump administration pressure to deregulate AI.
In an interview with the Financial time On Friday, the Henné Virkkunen, the EU digital chief, said that the AI responsibility proposal was being abandoned because the block wanted to focus on strengthening competitiveness by reducing bureaucracy and administrative formalities.
An upcoming Practice Code on AI – attached to the EU AI Act – would also limit declaration requirements to what is included in the rules of existing AI, she said .
On Tuesday, the American vice -president JD Vance warned European legislators to think again with regard to the creation of technological rules – urging the block to join him to rely on “the opportunity of the AI”, via A speech at Paris Ai Action Summit.
The Commission published its work program in 2025 the day after Vance – praising a “more daring, simpler, faster“Union. The document confirmed the disappearance of the AI responsibility proposal, while simultaneously establishing plans aimed at stirring the regional development and adoption of the AI.
