Even the EU's own government websites are polluted with the same cookie banners. Are they "maliciously compliant" with their own regulations? Are they trying to "undermine the regulation itself"?
> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.
https://commission.europa.eu/resources/europa-web-guide/desi...
So in the interest of legitimacy, the EU institutions should really fix that and remove the banners from their sites.
In the end i think Azure got to host of all French health data a year later despite the lobbying. Maybe with how the US look with Trump at the helm it will change (to be clear, it was a really weird lobbying in any case, our project was to test pseudonymation algorithms (and probably others) made by our researchers on our platform before selling them to scaleway or OVH depending on who won the project)