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Publications: Hadi Houalla

March 27, 2025

The EU Should Resist Calls to Regulate AI Under the DMA

Europe risks undermining its competitiveness in the AI race by heeding calls to extend the DMA to AI and cloud services.

February 28, 2025

UK Antitrust Enforcers Target Google in Inaugural DMCC Investigation

The Competition and Markets Authority’s looming decision to label Google with significant market status is the first step in a process that threatens to degrade the British consumer experience without achieving meaningful benefits to competition.

December 20, 2024

Apple vs. Europe—the $38 Billion Battle Over the DMA

The incoming administration is unlikely to take kindly to Europe's continuing antitrust attacks against Apple and other U.S. technology companies using a highly aggressive approach to DMA enforcement.

November 1, 2024

Who Is the New Vestager? EU Names Teresa Ribera as Competition Commissioner

While it remains uncertain what Ribera’s tenure will bring, early signs indicate she could drag sustainability into competition policy and pursue an unacceptable double standard of pushing European firms to grow while singling out American ones for aggressive enforcement.

June 27, 2024

It’s Time for Pro-Innovation, Atlanticist European Leadership

The EU is at a strategic crossroads when it comes to techno-economic policy. As the new Commission and Parliament take office, they must choose between fidelity to the transatlantic alliance and “strategic independence,” as well as between maintaining regulatory hostility toward large tech companies and unleashing innovation in Europe.

May 28, 2024

The EU’s DMA Investigations Place Innovation Under Microscope

Across the board, the DMA is being misapplied to target benign business conduct at the expense of both EU consumers and businesses as well as American tech companies.

May 1, 2024

EU Steering in Wrong Direction With DMA Investigations

The EU Commission is charting the wrong course by investigating large American technology companies under the Digital Markets Act for competitive behavior like anti-steering rules.

March 27, 2024

What You Need to Know as the DMA Goes Live

The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is attempting to chip away at the alleged dominance of the so-called tech giants, but not for the better.

February 26, 2024

Turkey’s DMA Spinoff Is Another Threat to Global Innovation

Turkey’s looming digital market regulation is yet another instance of EU anti-innovation policy being exported around the world.

January 12, 2024

Corporate Giants Break the Grip of Local Monopolies

In pursuing an anti-corporate agenda, antitrust enforcers jeopardize the very companies that made local markets competitive in the first place.

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