📋 Tender Overview
November 7, 2025
After new considerations by the EU to weaken the AI Act and postpone deadlines, it remains unclear whether there will be a moratorium. Bavarias Digital Minister Dr. Fabian Mehring has been calling for such a regulatory break for months - and sees this confirmed by the current debate. Europe must now focus on innovation, not bureaucracy.
Dr. Fabian Mehring, State Minister for Digital:
The race for technological leadership in AI is currently shifting to Europe - now we mustnt slow ourselves down. A new tech giant is currently coming to Bavaria almost every week. Our strategy of developing Bavaria into a top location for digital future technologies in the heart of Europe is really working. While almost all economic sectors are stagnating, the digital economy is exploding. It is our way out of the current economic crisis. The EU can no longer slam the door in the face of this upswing with ever new regulations. but must finally unleash its tech potential. While the USA is investing billions in AI infrastructure and China is moving global markets with innovations, Europe is losing time and innovative power through bureaucracy and over-regulation. With the AI Act, we risk permanently weakening our competitiveness and being left behind by Asia and the USA in the markets of the future. Instead of ever new regulations, we now need a phase of consolidation and standardization of existing rules Interpreting the EU framework law in 27 different ways must end. We need a homogeneous European economic area for AI and the like in order to harness the full power of 450 million Europeans and to be able to operate on an equal footing with the USA and Asia. This is the only way we can create planning security for companies and freedom for innovation. We must recognize that our competitors in the tech sector are not in Paris or Barcelona, but in the Valley or in Shenzhen Take your hand - and not just passively watch from the sidelines as others define it and distribute the wealth of the future among each other. I am calling for an immediate moratorium on the AI Act in order to resolutely exploit the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence and to continue the Bavarian path of setting up the tech giants. For the time being, all Europe needs is: No more new rules until all existing regulations have been homogenized across Europe.
