In this episode, Matthias Bauer speaks with Kay Jebelli (Kayvan Hazemi Jebelli), Vice President for Europe at the Chamber of Progress, about the real-world impact of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its controversial expansion into next-generation enterprise cloud services.
Drawing on his background as a competition lawyer and recent market research, Jebelli argues that while European policymakers view the regulatory instrument as future-proof, its rigid enforcement is creating unintended friction for everyday consumers and delaying the rollout of advanced AI technologies. Focusing on cloud platforms, he explains how the European Commission is shifting away from traditional competition law and consumer welfare principles toward an agenda aimed at tech sovereignty and industrial policy.
The conversation explores the unintended consequences of platform regulation, how the UK’s flexible and participatory approach to cloud markets sharply diverged from the EU’s gatekeeper model, the role of institutional independence within DG Competition, and the potential for transatlantic economic fallout.
You can watch a video recording of this conversation here.
You can read a transcript here.