Europe

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.

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.

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.

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.

While ITIF commends the CMA for asking whether competition policy is consistent with broader growth and competitiveness goals, in several respects the Discussion Paper appears to condone policies that would run counter to—not ensure—a faster growing and more globally competitive Britain.

France’s criminal investigation into TikTok for imperfect content moderation sets a dangerous precedent that would chill lawful speech and push platforms toward overly restrictive policies.

Robin Gaster argues that as the U.S. races toward a nuclear revival, it must first absorb France’s hard-earned lessons on cost overruns, delays, and governance failures to avoid repeating the same expensive mistakes.

The EU’s move to bar major U.S. tech companies from participating in its new financial data-sharing framework (FiDA) is a protectionist proposal that would limit consumer choice, suppress innovation, and undermine FiDA’s potential benefits.

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.

Joseph Coniglio speaks about Europe's big tech regulations at an event hosted by Broadband Breakfast.