Insights
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Steering into Price Control: Why the CMA’s App-Store Proposals Go beyond What is Necessary
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesThere is a conceptual problem right at the heart of the consultations on proposed steering conduct requirements (CRs) for Apple and Google by the...
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The Commission’s DMA Specification Decisions on Google: A Case of Regulatory Privilege Escalation
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIt is understood and accepted by most experts and observers that platform companies like Apple, Google, and Meta are large, systemic, and should be...
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Reassessing the Case for IPRED Injunction Reform: Proportionality, Evidence and European Patent Enforcement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceThe European Union seems to be revisiting an old debate about injunctions and injunctive relief in patent disputes. Although the debate focuses on...
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Before the Gatekeeper: AI and the Limits of Ex Ante Competition Regulation
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEight weeks ago, the European Commission concluded its review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) – its landmark regulation of technology platforms....
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Opening Android, Closing Competition? The DMA’s AI Interoperability Paradox
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyLast month, we argued in an ECIPE Insight that the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is not so much promoting competition anymore but rather actively trying...
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To Protect Data or Not to Protect: The Dilemma in the Commission’s Article 6(11) DMA Proceedings against Google
In a series of Insights and Studies, scholars at ECIPE have drawn attention to the increasingly conflictual relationship between new enforcement...
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When Rules Collide: Regulatory Frictions Around the DMA and the Future of the EU’s Digital Framework
The EU’s digital rulebook is entering a new phase, one marked less by the need to close regulatory gaps than by the risk of friction between...
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The DMA Is Not Fixing Competition, It’s Redesigning It
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) may be a young regulation but, curiously, is already showing signs of being misaligned with actual market realities. As...
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Getting Back to the Core “Draghi” Problem: Improving Europe’s Innovation and Technology Performance
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalWhen Mario Draghi published his report on the Future of European Competitiveness in September 2024, one observation stood out above all others:...
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Reviewing the Digital Markets Act: Inspirations from Japan
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe European Commission is in the process of reviewing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the flagship ex-ante competition regulation introduced a few...
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Should the EU Pause its AI Act? Why not Cancel it and Present a Better Regulation?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonIn mid-September, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a remarkable interview with Gabriele Mazzini, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, about...
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The EU Should Sign New Trade Agreements to Revive Long-term Economic Growth
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonFortunately, recent times have seen senior European leaders giving more support to new trade agreements than we have been used to in the past decade....