Published on
09/06/2026 - 12:06 GMT+2
Forty-one centre-left MEPs are raising concerns over a potential conflict of interest in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's choice for the EU's first special envoy for industrial AI.
At the end of May, Euronews revealed that the Commission chief was considering creating a new high-level post for AI to drive EU industrial policy in this area, though full details on the role remained a work in progress.
Last week the Commission confirmed that Jim Hagemann Snabe, a Danish businessman and chairman of German industrial giant Siemens, had been appointed to advise the EU executive on how to accelerate the uptake of AI across industrial sectors.
