EuroISPA Brussels General Meeting: A Recap
Brussels, November 17-18, 2025
Last week, EuroISPA brought together its members, partners, and guest experts for a two-day General Meeting filled with exchange, insights, and collective planning for the year ahead. Participants joined both in Brussels and online.
The meeting opened with the confirmation of the new President Romain Bonenfant and Board. Members also marked an important milestone with the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding with a key industry partner RIPE NCC, a sign of EuroISPA’s ongoing commitment to strengthening cooperation across the internet ecosystem.
Across both days, national associations shared updates on digital developments in their respective countries, highlighting trends on cybersecurity, infrastructure, data policy, and evolving regulatory priorities. These exchanges remain one of the most valuable elements of EuroISPA meetings, offering a real snapshot of the challenges and opportunities across Europe.
The programme also featured several guest speakers who provided timely perspectives on topics such as AI and copyright, data retention, the protection of children online, and online piracy. These sessions sparked constructive discussions among members, especially around emerging technological shifts and what they mean for ISPs and the wider digital sector. Among these we had the pleasure of welcoming high-level speakers such as BEREC Co-Chairs Amédée von Moltke and Christoph Mertens, who provided a clear overview of the 2024 BEREC Report on the IP Interconnection ecosystem, Stephan Edelbroich from the EUIPO Observatory, presenting the EUIPO study “The development of Generative Artificial Intelligence from a Copyright perspective,” and several experts from the European Commission. We thank all the speakers for their valuable input.
Internally, members reviewed ongoing work, administrative updates, and policy priorities for 2026. The agenda included as usually exchanges on our Committees’ work areas:
📌the Online Content Committee, tackling in particular the way forward on the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, age verification, piracy, copyright, and the Digital Fairness Act.
📌 the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Committee, setting the agenda for relevant initiatives ahead such as the Europol regulation, the ICT tool box and the Digital Networks Act. The committee also informed members of the e-Evidence IT decentralised system implementation and the upcoming Cybersecurity Act Review.
📌 the Data Economy Committee, focusing on the strategically important topic of Data Retention, GDPR simplification and the e-privacy and AI components of the Digital Omnibus package.
You can read more about the work of our Committees here.
As always, EuroISPA’s General Meeting was a valuable moment to connect, coordinate, and look ahead together. With several key regulatory files on the horizon and new initiatives in development, 2026 is shaping up to be an important year and the collaboration across the association continues to be one of its greatest strengths.
This General Meeting was yet another reminder of the strength of EuroISPA’s community: diverse perspectives, constructive dialogue, and a shared commitment to shaping a fair, secure and open internet environment in Europe.
A warm thank you to all members who participated and contributed to the discussions, both in person and remotely. We look forward to continuing this important work together, and to meeting again at the first General Meeting of 2026!
