Germany and Spain push back on Brussels’ plans to ban Huawei gear bloc-wide
Berlin and Madrid are resisting the European Commission’s push for binding legislation on Huawei and ZTE, citing Beijing-retaliation risk and the cost of AI-infrastructure build-out.
Germany and Spain are leading opposition inside the European Council to the European Commission’s draft plan to ban Huawei and ZTE equipment from EU telecom networks at the bloc level.
The two member states want decisions about high-risk vendors to remain under national-level control, and have warned that an EU-wide ban would invite retaliation from Beijing and inflate the cost of the artificial-intelligence infrastructure build-out the bloc has spent the past 18 months trying to accelerate.
The pushback lands at an awkward moment for Brussels. The Commission has spent most of 2026 trying to convert its long-standing “recommendation” against Chinese telecom suppliers into binding law.
In early May it issued a fresh formal recommendation, broader in scope than the original 2020 version, urging member states...
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