Lawmakers of the Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, LIBE, will tomorrow hear four candidates that are hoping to become the next European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – the privacy watchdog of the EU institutions.

There are growing questions about how the EU is going to enforce tech regulation, particularly as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

European Commission fined for breaking GDPR EU General Court levies fine for failing to protect EU data A German citizen was paid 400 euros The European Commission has been forced to pay a 400 euro ($412) fine to a German citizen for breaking its own data protection regulations.

The expanded probe by the European Commission, announced on Friday, requires X to hand over internal documents regarding its recommendation algorithm. The Commission also issued a “retention order” for all relevant documents relating to how the algorithm could be amended in future.

The European Union said on Friday it was considering its options after Britain announced it was delaying implementation of tougher global bank rules until 2027, adding it was in "everyone's interest" to implement the reforms fully and on time.

The EU General Court has ruled against the European Commission for failing to comply with its own GDPR data protection regulations.

The pushback comes as the emboldened leaders of US tech companies, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have been courting President-elect Donald Trump, with Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg urging him directly to combat EU regulatory enforcement.

Human Rights Watch joined 170 other human rights and environmental organizations and trade unions calling on the European Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen to actively protect the European Union’s existing corporate accountability laws.

The European Commission’s new chief competition enforcer pushed back against concerns that the regulator might weaken its efforts to curb Big Tech companies in the bloc ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

The EU and Ireland are seeking appeasement rather than confrontation with incoming US president Donald Trump, attempting to appeal to his more transactional instincts. Ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Ireland’s EU commissioner Michael McGrath said the EU wants to engage “diplomatically” at first.

Google does not want to introduce its own fact checks for the results of its search engine, as the company made clear in a letter to the EU Commission.