Top officials from the European Union and the United States later will this month try to attune their strategies on regulating big tech and defend democratic values on the internet, a statement said on Thursday.
The creation of an EU-US tech council was agreed at a summit in June and its work begins as both sides are drawing up laws that could profoundly change the ways giants such as Google, Facebook or Apple do business.
The US will almost certainly press Europe to help curb the ambitions of emerging superpower China.
The first transatlantic Trade and Tech Council will take place in Pittsburgh, a US tech hub, on September 29.
It will be chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US trade representative Katherine Tai and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. On the European side, EU executive vice-presidents Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s tech supremo, and Valdis Dombrovskis will take the lead talks.
The council came at the request of the Europeans who sought concrete signs of appeased transatlantic cooperation after years of tension under president Donald Trump, especially over trade matters.
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