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🇪🇺 eu/acc Today, Thierry Breton, the primary opponent of technological progress in the European Union resigned He was responsible for: - making technology companies Europe's #1 enemy, making many companies leave for the US - the EU AI Act which made it impossible to build an AI startup in Europe - the Digital Services Act which was used to stifle free speech in Europe (famously on here) From his resignation letter it looks like he was fired I think what that shows is that all the attention everyone is bringing on here on how Europe was going the wrong way is working So please keep posting on here and telling your friends about the problems of Europe and where you feel Europe should be going instead Because the EU does actually listen to us to steer its future, not immediately, but eventually
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Thierry Breton
@ThierryBreton
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team. Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda. It has been an honour & privilege to serve the common European interest🇪🇺
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Wim Cools
@wcools
Bizarre letter as well, all about himself and his career, nothing about advancing EU (tech) progress! Good news, let’s hope they’ll change course and also drop other damaging initiatives to eu tech startups and privacy like banning end to end encryption
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Bayram
@bayramgnb
Man… your yapping works,
@IndieHackers
featured you in last week’s newsletter. “Pieter Levels is many things: Indie hacking legend, podcast extraordinaire, and now, European power player. For months now, Pieter has been beating the drum on the need to make Europe competitive
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eu/acc
@euacchq
We need
@EU_Commission
, leaders to keep asking themselves : ”What does it take to accelerate 🇪🇺 founders to make Europe a World leader in AI, IPOs, Tech market cap, Growth?” To get the right answers, they need to call, meet tech founders. Including the ones who left Europe
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Raph. H.
@Rapahelz
"The truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.” ― Plato
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Akber Khan
@akber1khan
Great news for the EU! The talent in the EU is amazing. Just needs to be unshackled and unleashed. As I said in a previous tweet: The EU boys are on fire on X Now they need to make incredible incentives for startups to build and operate in EU Make life easy for builders
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Connor Allen
@ConnorAllenEU
Don't forget the Data Act, which teams up with it's buddirs GDPR and AI Act to make sure that no meaningful data processing can ever take place on the continent ever!
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Dwayne
@CtrlAltDwayne
Europe might be finally ready to accelerate. Plenty of smart people just waiting to be unleashed. Let's let them out of the cage, remove the shackles and see what happens.
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Tim Höfer
@timhoefer
What will happen now: They'll appoint some other technocrat who's more skilled at politics, and keeps doing the same things, but without raising attention.
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ΔΓ
@dimgrr
They will now replace him with someone who manages to do the same while remaining under the radar.
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Joel Basson
@joelbasson
Based on how European tech Twitter loved him and American Twitter hated him, he clearly did a great job. Based Breton
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Louis Anslow
@LouisAnslow
Good on nuclear tho
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Thierry Breton
@ThierryBreton
From EPRs to SMRs! #nuclear Productive meeting with @KadriSimson, @Ili_Ivanova and industry on how the 🇪🇺 Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Alliance will: 🔹Support industry-led projects 🔹Create strong market demand 🔹Develop supply chains 🔹Facilitate access to finance
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Ramón Horváth
@haromn
That is a very optimistic take. The realistic one is that he was know for having disagreements with UVDL, and she seems to have won the power struggle.
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Axel Großklaus
@honx
And now we're getting a new EU comissioner for "Startups, Research, Innovation" who is a Lawyer with absolutely zero background or experience in research/tech/innovation....This is going to be great...
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Raphael Mansuy 🍵
@raphaelmansuy
Every organization under his leadership has experienced significant decline. ATOS Origin, once a profitable enterprise, saw its fortunes deteriorate following his involvement.
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Chainfire
@ChainfireXDA
I've been complaining about these things for a long time but I don't have the reach you do. Glad a difference has been made!
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Unicornist Cake🇨🇿🇮🇪🇪🇺
@UnicornistCake
France, in general, is a challenge in the wider EU context. Unlike Germany, it still wants to dominate and has exceptionalist ideas. Not dissimilar to the already departed UK.
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Maksim
@maxslch
firing people who failed badly is the first step for acceleration, sad it dragged on this long but didn’t expect such a positive move to happen in europe
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Ad-Astra
@AdAstra888
What got him fired is his meddling with US elections when he issued a letter to
@elonmusk
. Shortly after the EU wrote a letter saying his letter was unilateral with no consultation of the EU. Good riddance for this bureaucrat!
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Guillermo FEO
@GuillermoFG84
In France some people are scared that he will be nominated to a role in the government as he was pushed for by Macron to be the Commissioner
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Pedro Orlando
@orlandopedro_
🫡 IMO As long as we have people who don’t understand technology creating regulation on technology we gonna run into more people like him. It’s a mindset problem, and how institutions are driven, in most cases it’s not only a technological gap, but a generational one.
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Vlad
@haltakov
This is good news and I hope you are right regarding the reasons! I hope that it is not just some personal beef with other people at the commission. Let's see who gets to be the next one and if it is indeed better
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Sebby 🚀
@sebby_builds
kind of hilarious that with all of his posturing and bravado, this is how his time as censorship czar comes to an end (looks like a political backstab at the last moment). Such a great opportunity to start making substantive progress nonetheless, I just hope they dont replace
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Alex Northstar
@NorthstarBrain
About time! I went to San Francisco and they have robots arriving you coffee. Meanwhile in Europe we have the most annoying bottle cap system in the world. Innovation.
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Nicholas Sollazzo
@n_sollazzo
I’m happy to see that things are slowly changing within the EU 🇪🇺. I’m in Italy🇮🇹 right now (beautiful country, terrible environment for entrepreneurs) I’m curious to see when we’ll be able to see those “changes” in here as well
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aaron g
@aarongraves
glad he’s gone, but there’s still way too much regulation on the books in europe. i’d rather block european customers than deal with their laws
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Alex Doda 🪼
@oalexdoda
I think having you on podcasts like Lex’s share more about the eu/acc movement is one of the best ways to bring true change. Because people watching those podcasts include regulators and political groups who can lobby for positive stuff.
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Dennis Paul
@Dennispaulm
Hopefully, a new chapter begins for European innovation! With Breton's departure, the EU has a chance to embrace technological progress and reignite its startup ecosystem. Time to unleash European ingenuity, foster a culture of innovation, and reclaim their place as global
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Mikhal
@perceptionlabs_
Keep up the great work, Pieter.🙏 We need people with bigger following like yourself to be vocal. It's sad where we have gotten to in the EU, but as long as we push for change—there's hope.
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Marcus Anthony Cyganiak
@SolespireMarcus
Enjoy retirement,
@ThierryBreton
, while we Europeans make EU’s digital tech sector greater than it ever was under your wildly restrictive behaviour, which totally hampered our ability to innovate on this continent. Have an idea? Move to the U.S. and make it happen. That was the
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Sujay
@captainsuj
Not very well educated on EU laws as I live in the united States, but I do believe that tech needs regulation but it should be done in a way that does not prevent getting rid of innovation.. any ways the topic means a lot to me, so hmu in the DM's and educate me
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Tensor Templar
@TensorTemplar
I have never seen bad legislation being reverted in the EU before, but the AI act would be a good place to start. Llama 3.1 Models are right up there with closed source cloud, in terms of performance, but unlike cloud don't require a startup to pay €2k per benchmark and this AI
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Dan
@iamjustabigboy
they don't listen ... the ones who we don't know or control probably have changed the direction in light of the new opposition to migration from Germany and Holland, the problems of Sweden etc. They will bring a new idea, same direction, only more carefully disguised
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Richard Waal
@rwaal
Honest question: Are there any politicians or political parties in the EU who oppose these restrictive acts and support a more innovation-friendly approach?
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Chris Brannigan
@Chris_Brannigan
🙏 hoping this plus the honesty of the Draghi report is a signal that Europe is moving to a tech optimism stance that leverages the fantastic assets of their people and infrastructure to grow and prosper
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Amarjeet Rai
@sonu27
I realise you’re coming from a business point of view, but there are some positives for users in the Digital Services Act, such as alternatives to gatekeepers e.g. Apple, better interoperability…
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Geoffroy d'Autichamp
@geodautich
Don’t feel sorry for him. In a few weeks, one of his friends from the government or an administration will call him to appoint him CEO of a public company, or any other well paid useless public job…
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Bruno
@iBruno
Good news for Europe. I wanted the same to happen with a certain authority in Brazil.
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Jens Schlegel
@sl_jens
The AI Act doesn't make it impossible to build AI startup. If the startup isn't in a critical category, its really not difficult.
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