‘Stop using US tech’: An MEP says the Starlink service cutoff led to deaths.

Milena Wälde, Pieter Haeck   Politico.eu   5 November 2026
In an interview with POLITICO, Finnish EPP lawmaker Aura Salla argued that the speed cap on the SpaceX military Starshield service was “yet another example of a kill switch,” which led directly to battlefield deaths.

The MEP also pushed back on calls for Europe to forego building homegrown frontier AI models.