• Speaker: Brando Benifei, MEP
• Interviewer: Jannis Brühl

About the Event

February 10, 2026
5:00 – 6:00 PM
(17:00) CEST

The Polis Digitalis Series starts with an interview of influential MEP Brando Benefei by distinguished journalist Janis Brühl.

From the attempts by the Trump administration and the Big Tech oligarchs to cancel or weaken EU digital regulation to the Greenland developments and the publication of the new US security strategy, we are witnessing concerted attacks which constitute a real and present existential danger for the EU.

Will the EU stand strong and united in this “moment of truth” or will it backslide towards a loose gathering of weak states where Big Tech can purvey their platforms and AI applications with no rules or guardrails and with total impunity ?

This is about dignity and independence versus digital, and not only, vassalage.

Brando Benifei is an active and influential member of the European Parliament and, most pertinently for today’s event, after having served as a co-rapporteur of the AI Act is now the chair of the EP delegation for relations with the United States. Janis Brühl is one of Germany’s leading journalists and heads the digital and finance team at Süddeutsche Zeitung.

We are looking forward to seeing you:

Participate via Zoom (Password: 0dzqxqiy).
The talk will also be live-streamed and recorded on the DIGHUM YouTube Channel.

This event is made possible with the support of bidt and EUDHIT.

Video

Recording will be available after the event.