diff --git a/.lycheeignore b/.lycheeignore
index 371a3530..88948c92 100644
--- a/.lycheeignore
+++ b/.lycheeignore
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 ^https?://(www\.)?twitter\.com
 web\.archive\.org
 hrw\.org
+# EU Commission digital-strategy pages return 403 to scripted fetches (checked
+# 2026-10-21); the links are primary sources cited in content, so keep them live.
+digital-strategy\.ec\.europa\.eu
 # The IAM Blast Radius tool page is a vendored SPA shipped as static files;
 # its internal anchors are not crawlable HTML (deploy also --exclude-path's
 # output/tools for the same reason).