Europe

Join ITIF for an expert panel discussion on the details and likely outcomes of the fair contribution policy proposal, and what the Internet might look like if it’s implemented.

The EU is considering a new policy that would force American content providers like Google and Netflix to effectively subsidize European ISPs. The Biden administration should push back at the next meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council.

With its provocative claim that America now has less economic competition than the EU, Thomas Philippon’s book The Great Reversal has become a bible for neo-Brandeisians. But reports of the death of competition in America are highly exaggerated: While U.S. antitrust remains effective, EU competition policy has failed to stimulate innovation, productivity, or growth.

The preeminent foreign policy question facing the West for at least the next several decades will be what to do about China’s rise as a techno-economic, military, and foreign policy power. But as things stand, Western leaders cannot even agree on the premise of the matter.

Watch the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) online event where they explored EU-U.S. transatlantic trade relations.

While the UK aims to use light touch regulation to become Europe’s leader in AI, the EU has taken the opposite approach, creating burdensome rules for the technology in its set-to-pass AI Act.

Daniel Castro presents on the importance of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council at the Digital Croatia 2030 conference hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia.

Patrick Grady moderates a Bumble-hosted roundtable on the topic of AI & Gender-based harm.

Based on recommendations from chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government has released detailed proposals for how the UK can implement its pro-innovation regulation of digital technologies. This regulatory strategy is intended to boost the use of data and emerging technologies in business and government.

Join ITIF and OECD to explore policy questions that arose in the context of the OECD Review of Innovation Policy: Germany, but which have relevance to both the United States and Germany.