Publications: Lilla Nóra Kiss

Despite its promise to make Europe’s digital economy fairer and more open, the Digital Markets Act has instead made life online slower, costlier, and more complicated for the very consumers it was meant to protect.

Brazil’s Digital Markets Bill promises to tame tech giants, but in reality, it threatens to import Europe’s flawed regulatory experiment—punishing innovation more than protecting consumers

The antitrust procedural framework can be improved by measures that create a less burdensome and more objective evidentiary process, as well as provide investigated parties with greater access to the Commission’s complete file.

DMA is not an effective tool of competition policy. On the contrary, it has resulted in demonstrable consumer welfare losses, chilled procompetitive behavior, and even harmed small businesses. What’s more, it has done so by imposing obligations and penalties that inexcusably target America’s leading technology companies.

Korea’s incoming KFTC leadership should oppose reviving ex ante platform regulation. Such rules are unnecessary, rest on flawed premises, and would weaken both innovation and strategic alliances.

The focus of the guidelines is to help assess whether a merger would significantly impede effective competition or create or strengthen a dominant position. Unfortunately, this structural understanding of competition differs from a conception of competition as either a dynamic process or a consumer welfare proscription, both of which are far better suited to having a productive and growing economy.

The European Commission’s DMA action against Meta reveals a strategy of using data protection law principles to stretch competition rules beyond their intended scope—ultimately setting a compliance bar no gatekeeper can meet, infantilizing users, and selectively targeting successful integrated American platforms.

Instead of distancing itself from the United States through regulation, the EU must prioritize a transatlantic tech alliance as the only viable way to compete with China and protect shared democratic interests.

After facing U.S. backlash over a bill modeled on the EU’s Digital Markets Act, South Korea appeared to pause its digital antitrust push. But rather than stepping back entirely, the government has shifted focus to the Online Platform Fairness Act, which may prove even more intrusive.

The EU’s Digital Markets Act was sold as a blueprint for fairness and innovation. But instead of fostering competition, the DMA risks turning Europe into a regulatory island—more isolated, less competitive, and increasingly irrelevant on the world stage.