The EU's Huawei Ban Isn't a Procurement Decision. It's a Dependency Inventory Problem.
The EU Huawei ban is entering its most consequential phase yet. On May 4, 2026, the European Commission reissued a recommendation it first made in 2020: keep Huawei and ZTE out of critical telecom infrastructure. Nothing about that repetition was accidental. It was the public-facing half of a much harder structural shift — a January 2026 revision to the EU's Cybersecurity Act (CSA2) that would convert six years of voluntary guidance into a binding legal obligation, with a proposed 36-month phas…