{"id":455860,"date":"2026-06-05T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/06\/05\/per-lue-le-attivita-in-siemens-del-neo-inviato-speciale-per-lia-non-sono-un-problema\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:13:40","slug":"the-eu-does-not-view-the-activities-of-the-newly-appointed-special-envoy-for-ai-at-siemens-as-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/05\/the-eu-does-not-view-the-activities-of-the-newly-appointed-special-envoy-for-ai-at-siemens-as-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU does not view the activities of the newly appointed special envoy for AI at Siemens as a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 “He will suspend his membership of certain boards of directors.” And that is all. <\/span><\/span>This is the European Commission\u2019s response<\/b><\/a> regarding the newly appointed Special Envoy for Industrial Artificial Intelligence<\/b><\/a>, Jim Hagemann Snabe, and his role as Chairman of Siemens, which he will therefore not be required to step down from<\/strong><\/b>. <\/strong>A situation which, in the view of the EU executive, does not give rise to conflicts of interest, and which is resolved by limiting the number of board meetings he attends. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we appoint an envoy or a special adviser, we have a duty to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between the professional activities they carry out outside and within the Commission,\u201d clarified the Commission spokesperson, <\/span>Balazs Ujvari<\/b>, during today\u2019s (5 June) daily press briefing, suggesting that as the appointment had been approved, there were no risks to the impartiality of the role and the work. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Two days ago, Snabe was appointed<\/a> Special Envoy for Industrial Artificial Intelligence, a role designed to advise the Commission on issues related to robotics and new technologies in order to maximise the transformative potential of AI across the EU.
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Since 2018, however, Snabe has also been chairman of the Supervisory Board<\/b><\/a> of Siemens AG, a company that is said to have lobbied the EU to avoid overly strict regulation of artificial intelligence. Ujvari promised that \u201cvery solid, robust, and targeted safeguards\u201d would be put in place to \u201censure there is no conflict of interest\u201d in relation to what he described as an \u201cunfortunate situation\u201d. The European Commission spokesperson did not provide further details, citing \u201cdata protection reasons.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some journalists then pointed out to the spokesperson that the MEP Dario Nardella (S&D)<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, who is also the European Parliament\u2019s rapporteur on the Artificial Intelligence Act, had denounced lobbying activities by Siemens against the legislative measure. In response to these allegations, the Commission merely stated that \u201cby now <\/strong><\/span>the law is in force and the special adviser will not be involved in legislative or regulatory aspects, but only in innovation.\u201d <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the European Commission, Snabe, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, does not have to step down from his role at the company, but merely scale back his responsibilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":455854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[25871,25821,29780,28885,34312,34335],"class_list":["post-455860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-artificial-intelligence-en","tag-dario-nardella-en","tag-ia-and","tag-jim-hagemann-snabe","tag-siemens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455861,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455860\/revisions\/455861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}