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Go to the Mattresses: It’s Time to Reset U.S.-EU Tech and Trade Relations
In its bid for tech sovereignty, the EU has been aggressively targeting U.S. firms and industries with unfair protectionist policies. This cannot stand. To move forward into a new era of deeper transatlantic trade integration, America must first demand a level playing field.
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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January 5, 2026|Blogs
How Yesterday’s Web-Crawling Policies Will Shape Tomorrow’s AI Leadership
The Internet may be forever, but regulatory frameworks should not be. Decisions made today about web crawling will help determine where the next generation of AI leadership emerges—whether in Europe, the United States, or elsewhere.
December 24, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Why the EU’s Google Antitrust Case Is Misplaced in the AI Era
The EU’s latest antitrust investigation against Google misreads competitive AI markets, risks politicized enforcement, and could heighten transatlantic tensions amid intensifying U.S.–China technological rivalry.
December 16, 2025|Blogs
Europe’s ePrivacy Reforms Are Too Late—and Too Small
The European Commission’s proposed tweaks to the ePrivacy Directive offer only minor relief from intrusive cookie prompts, but to truly support innovation, free digital services, and Europe’s competitiveness, policymakers must fundamentally overhaul the outdated consent model.
December 12, 2025|Blogs
Why the DMA Interoperability Investigations Poison Innovation
The DMA’s forced interoperability undermines platform differentiation, weakens security and reliability, and ultimately leaves European consumers with degraded versions of global technologies.
December 11, 2025|Blogs
The X Fine Highlights Europe’s Growing Regulatory Overreach
The European Commission’s €120 million DSA fine against X is arbitrary and overreaching. The U.S. government should continue pushing back against foreign regulations that harm American platforms and citizens.
December 11, 2025|Blogs
Hey EU, Did Ya See the Memo?
Europe, your vision of a green, integrated, and non-disruptive world is lovely. But it’s time to wake up and build the industrial and military capabilities that today’s world demands.
December 5, 2025|Blogs
Europe Writes the Rules and the World Pays the Price
The EU’s digital rulebook, often praised as global leadership, instead forces many non-EU countries into costly regulatory alignment that stifles local innovation and entrenches global digital inequality, underscoring the need for more flexible, locally tailored frameworks.
December 4, 2025|Testimonies & Filings
Comments to European Commission Regarding Joint Guidelines on the Interplay Between DMA and GDPR
Unfortunately, however complementary the objectives of protecting consumer privacy and promoting competition may be at a high level, complying with several key DMA prohibitions will undermine—not enhance—the privacy goals of the GDPR.
November 25, 2025|Presentations
Unlocking Europe’s Full Deep Tech Innovation Potential
Stephen Ezell gave a presentation on the steps Europe needs to take to unlock its deep tech innovation potential at the Advancing Strategic Competitiveness & European Innovation in Deep Tech (ASCEND) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 25, 2025.
November 21, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: 72 Percent of the Per Capita GDP Gap Between the US and the EU Is Explained by Lower Productivity
In terms of purchasing power parity, U.S. per capita GDP has grown from 31 percent above the EU to 34 percent above it. About 72 percent of this gap can be attributed to differences in productivity, while just 28 percent is due to the difference in hours worked by Americans and Europeans.
