According to the Financial Times, he said that creating regulatory barriers would be harmful in a context of rapid technological advancement.

Are we on a context of rapid technological advancement ? I would say we are in a context of dire technological stagnation.

«AI» is a mirage that is utterly failing at pretty much everything it is applied to, and in every other domain I would say tech progress is coming to a halt now that our new feudal lords have conquered so much of the market.

This push by the EU is, apart from digital sovereignty, a very necessary push to get some innovation going again. I hope more complementary measures will follow ; we really need hardware sovereignty as well.

The article isn’t clear on one thing : was it an analog or digital signal ?

The results are entirely unsurprising if the signal was digital. Also, I’d like to see a similar test in an environment with more electrical interference, I think the unshielded materials would fare less well there.