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\u201cOur work\u201d is \u201cmore difficult, more adversarial\u201d than anticipated, Agarwal admitted Monday.<\/p>\n

Withstanding the pressure from the U.S. is \u201cmuch bigger than the DSA itself,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt has to do with the intellectual space that we [as Europeans] occupy.\u201d He added that Europe must \u201cdefend a space in which we can actually debate things that are important for our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agarwal said that \u201cone sad thing\u201d about the current environment is that the space for open debate has shrunk. DSA workshops have become closed-door events at the request of companies, and fewer people come to Brussels to give talks on related topics.<\/p>\n

Agarwal said colleagues have also started sending messages via Signal, an encrypted app, rather than email, and many now have messages set to auto-delete, with the \u201cauto-delete timings getting shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Commission\u2019s leadership previously sought to reassure<\/a> staff whose names and emails were included in the U.S. Congress report, writing in an email seen by POLITICO that the institution stands by officials and will seek to protect them from threats.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u0080\u009cOur work\u00e2\u0080\u009d is \u00e2\u0080\u009cmore difficult, more adversarial\u00e2\u0080\u009d than anticipated, Agarwal admitted Monday. Withstanding the pressure from the U.S. is \u00e2\u0080\u009cmuch bigger than the DSA itself,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he continued. \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt has to do with the intellectual space that we [as Europeans] occupy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}