European competition law has a remedy problem. As digitisation changes how markets work, it becomes harder to find effective remedies. In this week’s blog, Jasper van den Boom discusses the papers [1][2] he has written together with Fiona Scott Morton, in which the authors theorise on how the EU remedy design can be recalibrated to […]
AI Action Summit: Can Europe still enter the Competition?
Utilising its full force of glamour, diplomacy, and Parigian style, France rang the wake-up bell for Europe in the race to Artificial Intelligence with the AI Action Summit in Paris. Maybe this came a bit late – but it came with a bang. Emmanuel Macron announced an investment package of 109 billion Euros for AI […]
SCiDA’s Digital Regulation Review of 2024
2024 is coming to an end and what a year for Shaping Competition in the Digital Age! The DMA picked up steam with record pace, we have a new EU Commissioner for competition and a new law in the UK (DMCCA) – to name only a few developments of a packed year. 2024 has proven […]
Meta’s Less-personalised Ads: A Compliance Facade?
Meta has introduced a new free subscription option with less personalised ads for Facebook and Instagram. Is this the end of behavioural advertising or a showcase of illusive compliance? Sebastian Steinert analyses Meta’s tactics to protect its data-driven business model based on behavioural advertising. By Sebastian Steinert “We want to empower citizens to be […]
Booking’s compliance workshop: a road well travelled?
On 25 November 2024 the Commission hosted its seventh DMA compliance workshop which was a first for two reasons: 1. The first European gatekeeper had to explain and answer to market participants interested and in parts skeptical about the travel platform’s DMA compliance plans. 2. It was a little (too) calm. Does this have to […]
Defining fairness in digital: how to operationalise an ideal?
Behrang Kianzad, researcher at Lund University School of Economics and Management, ponders the idea of fairness in EU regulation. It will be difficult to find someone who would argue in favour of a world that is unfair, yet the idea of fairness is not as universal as it may seem, nor is it easy to […]
A human-centred digital transformation: can we recapture the promises of the internet?
Book Review – Digital Policy in the EU: Towards a Human-Centred Digital Transformation” by Werner Stengg Werner Stengg’s formal position sounds modest: He is a „Cabinet Expert“ in the European Commission. Yet, Stengg, a Commission official since 1996, is one of the masterminds behind European digital regulation. In his career he oversaw many important portfolios […]
Navigating Digital Markets: A Challenge for Turkish Competition Law
This week’s contribution is by Gülce Korkmaz, PhD student and Fellow at the Joachim Herz Doctoral School of Law at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She will walk us through the proposed amendments to the Turkish Competition Act, and shed some light on the heavily amended E-commerce Law. Her analysis reveals the content, progressive nature, […]
SCiDA Podcast – Towards the ECN DMA – Mozilla, the Internet Economy Foundation and Vanessa Turner (BEUC) on the present and future of the DMA
Interview with Kush Amlani – Mozilla This episode we interview Kush Amlani, Global Competition & Regulatory Counsel at Mozilla. Mozilla is a non-profit backed technology organisation, known for the flagship Firefox browser. Mozilla is also recognised for its advocacy campaigns that champion privacy, human dignity, and an open internet. LISTEN HERE: SCiDA Podcast #4 – Kush […]
Introducing the SCiDA Podcast – Towards the ECN-DMA Workshop series.
For those of you who want to listen to digital platform regulation issues while being on the go – We are launching the SCiDA Podcast! In the coming weeks, we conduct interviews with stakeholders about their views on the DMA and national digital platform regulation, their experiences in the DMA compliance workshops, how they see […]