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Brussels Switches On the AI Act: What 2 August 2026 Actually Changes
The high-risk obligations of Regulation 2024/1689 come into force this August, the AI Office begins its first GPAI audits, and twenty-seven national regulators arrive at the starting line at very different speeds.
The EU AI Act entered force on 1 August 2024 with a phased calendar that has now reached the most consequential threshold. Prohibitions on social scoring and untargeted scraping for facial recognition databases applied from 2 February 2025. General-purpose AI obligations under Article 53 applied from 2 August 2025. On 2 August 2026 the hi...
The 401 Vote Mandate: Translating the 2024 European Parliament into the 2026 Policy Cycle
The June 2024 European elections returned a Parliament that is more right-leaning than any since 1979, yet the centre held. The structural question is whether Ursula von der Leyen's 401 vote majority can finance the Draghi prescription before the median floor vote drifts further toward Patriots for Europe and the European Conservatives and Reformists.
The June 6 to 9, 2024 European Parliament election returned 720 members across 27 member states. The European People's Party expanded to 188 seats, the Socialists and Democrats held 136, Renew Europe contracted sharply to 77, the Greens fell to 53, the European Conservatives and Reformists rose to 78, and the new Patriots for Europe forma...