The point: The EU’s Digital Commissioner warns that export restrictions by European countries risk creating uncontrolled dependencies and demands coordinated agreements instead of unilateral blockades by individual states.
The EU Digital Commissioner criticizes U.S. national AI export restrictions and rejects unilateral control over European critical infrastructure. She calls for bilateral coordination on the availability of AI models such as Anthropic in the EU.
European regulators must have a say in AI export restrictions to prevent individual states — including the USA — from gaining unilateral control over critical infrastructure in the EU. This is the central demand of the EU Digital Commissioner in her criticism of U.S. restrictions on AI systems, particularly regarding Anthropic.
The core problem lies in the asymmetrical regulatory landscape: national export controls jeopardize Europe’s technological capability for action while simultaneously creating dependencies on states that exercise these controls. The Commissioner explicitly rejects the notion that anyone should hold a “kill switch” for European critical infrastructure — a metaphor for the ability of individual governments to cut off access to essential systems.
Instead, she advocates for structured agreements between the USA and its European partners to create rules-based access arrangements that take mutual security interests into account without fostering technological balkanization. This directly affects compliance requirements under the EU AI Act and the availability of frontier models for enterprises in the DACH region.
Source: www.golem.de · Published 24 June 2026
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