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Draghi calls for pausing EU AI Act, ‘radical simplification’ of GDPR

By Luca Bertuzzi ( September 16, 2025, 13:35 GMT | Insight) -- Italy’s former prime minister Mario Draghi has urged a pause of the EU AI Act’s high-risk rules and pressed for a radical simplification of the GDPR, warning that legal uncertainty is slowing AI deployment and raising costs for European firms. His intervention adds weight to ongoing EU talks on delaying the AI Act and simplifying the bloc's data privacy law, with a digital package expected by early December.Mario Draghi backed a pause of the AI Act’s requirements for high-risk AI systems and called for a radical simplification of the General Data Protection Regulation, at a conference* on Tuesday....

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