Digital economy

Not yet Trump-proof: an evaluation of the European Commission’s emerging policy platform

This policy brief evaluates the capacity of the EU’s economic strategy to address structural problems and whether policy needs to change under Trump

The EU vs. Big Tech: Regulating for innovation and sovereignty

How should the EU regulate Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence?

Using data as a production factor: policy ideas for a new EU data strategy

How should the EU go about designing a data-market regime that maximises the efficient use of data as an economic production factor?

It’s time for the European Union to rethink personal social networking

This Policy Brief explores the potential implementation of Article 7 interoperability for social networking core platform systems.

Catch-up with the US or prosper below the tech frontier? An EU artificial intelligence strategy

This Policy Brief explores why EU AI investment has fallen behind the US and the types of market failure that may have led to that situation

The tension between exploding AI investment costs and slow productivity growth

This working paper explores the tension between rapidly increasing artificial intelligence investment costs and the slower pace of productivity growth

Simplifying EU law: a cumbersome task with mixed results

The volume and complexity of EU laws continue to increase despite measures taken in previous mandates to make existing legislation less burdensome

Draghi disappoints on digital

The Draghi report’s emphasis on hardware and telecoms is out of touch with modern digital developments

Memo to the commissioner responsible for digital affairs

Google Search found out

A US finding of illegal monopolisation of online search by Google could boost competition and innovation

On the digital euro holding limits

The plan for a retail digital euro holding limit, combined with a ‘waterfall approach’ to smooth transactions, sets up an apparent clash of objectives

Europe can produce its own tech giants — here’s how