The Clause That Almost Vanished

The public record does not prove who wrote the Digital Omnibus. It shows something more useful: who had access, whose asks aligned with the draft, and which public-visibility safeguard nearly disappeared before the compromise text restored it in narrower form.

Read the coverage of the Digital Omnibus and you come away with one fact: the AI Act’s hardest deadlines moved. True, and boring. A detective doesn’t stop at the headline; the question that pays is the quieter one — who shaped the rewrite, and how would we know?

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