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The Digital Markets Act: A Triumph of Regulation Over Innovation

The Digital Markets Act presents three fundamental challenges as it nears adoption: First, it will increase regulatory fragmentation. Second, its disproportionate blanket obligations and prohibitions will be economically detrimental and legally controversial. Third, it will be difficult to implement, as some of its provisions clash with other European regulations.
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March 27, 2025|Blogs
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.
March 25, 2025|Blogs
What Vance Left Unsaid in Paris: America’s AI Leadership Hinges on Big Tech Leadership
Vice President Vance was right to warn against stifling AI innovation with excessive regulation, but the Trump administration must go further by pushing back against policies like the EU’s Digital Markets Act and similar U.S. regulatory efforts that undermine American tech leadership. To maintain global competitiveness, the U.S. should support its leading tech companies, ensuring they have the scale and capital needed to drive AI and technological advancements, rather than subjecting them to restrictive regulations that benefit foreign competitors.
March 21, 2025|Blogs
Does the DMA Intentionally Target US Companies?
While the DMA may be motivated by Europe’s commitment to its long-held ordoliberal model of competition policy, its disproportionate effects on U.S. firms are intentional.
March 17, 2025|Podcasts
Trading Blows: Is Europe Prepared? With Aslak Berg and Ignacio Garcia Becerro
In this episode of the Trade War Podcast by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, host Stan McCoy delves into the current state of US-EU trade tensions with esteemed European trade experts Ignacio Garcia Becerro and Aslak Berg.
February 28, 2025|Blogs
Protectionism Will Hold Back Europe’s Innovation
If the European Commission truly wants innovation-led growth, it should abandon the idea that protection equals prosperity.
February 26, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
The EU’s Competitiveness Compass: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
The European Commission’s Competitiveness Compass rightly identifies Europe’s economic and innovation challenges but proposes misguided solutions.
January 17, 2025|Testimonies & Filings
Comments to the European Commission Regarding Proposed Measures for Interoperability Between Apple iOS and Devices
Instead of treating Apple as a public utility, the Commission should work to ensure that interoperability requirements align with the broader theoretical framework that orients European competition policy, such as condemning unilateral conduct that may harm rivals only when it does not constitute competition on the merits.
January 15, 2025|Blogs
The EU Has Been Taking Advantage of America’s Effort to Combat Chinese Economic Mercantilism
The EU over the last 7 years has cravenly ducked the industrial fight against China, attempting to expand its exports while America shoulders the costs. That cannot be allowed to continue as the new Trump administration ratchets up pressure against our common adversary.
December 20, 2024|Blogs
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|Blogs
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.