How does the EU protect minors online? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot

Published connected 20/04/2026 - 8:00 GMT+2•Updated 8:15

97 per cent of young radical are online daily, with 65 per cent relying connected societal media for their main quality source. Among 13 to 17-year-olds, 78 per cent cheque their devices hourly. 9 to 15-year-olds walk up to 3 hours connected societal platforms, and 25 per cent admit to smartphone addiction, according to the 2025 Parliament's study connected an EU-wide minimum property for societal media.

The EU already took steps to safeguard minors online done initiatives specified arsenic the Digital Market Act, the Strategy for a Better Internet for Kids, and the Action Plan Against Cyberbullying.

Key regulations, including the strengthened Digital Services Act, present see circumstantial guidelines to support children successful the integer space.

None of these solutions imposes a minimum property for accessing societal media, online platforms, and AI tools.

In 2025, the European Parliament pushed for an EU-wide property bounds connected societal media and restrictions connected addictive features similar infinite scrolling and engagement-driven recommendations.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an age-verification app past week. The extremity is to person a minimum property request for accessing societal media portion prioritising idiosyncratic privacy.

An adept sheet is presently advising the Commission connected an EU-wide strategy for kid information online to debar a confusing patchwork of nationalist rules. Its recommendations volition travel by summertime 2026.

Member states are outpacing Brussels. France has already approved a 15-year societal media ban. Spain, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands are gearing up for urgent governmental action.

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