Bertin Martens

AI, data and Europe’s quest to simplify

How can the EU adapt its rulebook to meet tomorrow's technology environment?

The European Union needs more than the digital omnibus to make digital services competitive

European Commission plans to streamline digital rules introduce new inconsistences and fall far short of transformative reform

The challenge of AI encroachment into online search and advertising

AI-driven answers erode search engine dominance and highlight the need for new strategies to promote competition in digital markets

The European Union is still caught in an AI copyright bind

Tweaks to EU copyright requirements in the AI Act Code of Practice will maintain the AI growth momentum, for now – but will also create new challenges

EU Tech Rules: What to make of the first DMA fines?

How Brussels can regulate big tech in a time of trade wars

EU targeting of digital services in tariff retaliation would present challenges

The European Union lacks an instrument to unpick cross-border transactions on US digital platforms

A planned code of practice would reinforce the EU’s artificial intelligence copyright problem

The European Union is continuing to unnecessarily restrict access to copyright-protected content for AI model training

How DeepSeek has changed artificial intelligence and what it means for Europe

This Policy Brief analyses innovations in AI models over the past half year and examines the economic implications for AI companies and policymakers

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for digital affairs

How can the EU harness data as an economic production factor?

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?

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

How should the EU position itself in the AI technology race?

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

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

Why artificial intelligence is creating fundamental challenges for competition policy

This Policy Brief examines competition-reducing market-entry barriers in each segment in the AI value chain

Research, innovation and data: a fifth freedom in the EU single market?

Research and innovation should be at the top of the EU economic policy agenda, but cannot over-rely on public investment

Do EU tech rules add up?

Mapping out the EU’s digital agenda

Why should EU copyright protection be reduced to realise the innovation benefits of Generative AI?