In a new policy brief, Giorgos Verdi, George Colville, and Dora Wierzbicka set out how Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package needs to be strengthened in order to effectively reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign digital infrastructure. The Commission’s proposals contain many promising elements, but the package needs to be more ambitious, more rigorous in ensuring it does not in fact benefit existing foreign dominant actors, and more holistic in its treatment of the problem.
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In a new policy brief, George Colville makes the case for urgent updates to the DMA to ensure it can meaningfully tackle cloud concentration. Without such changes, the newfound determination to break apart the cloud oligopoly is likely to make little difference, even after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were designated as gatekeepers under the DMA.
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Join Open Markets Institute and our partners in Paris on Friday, September 25, as we ask how market concentration threatens European democracy and shared prosperity, and what we can do about it.
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Massive corporations like Google should not be able to buy their way out of complying with EU law.
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Big Tech wants Agentic AI to be your gateway to the internet – concentrating market power and reshaping the digital economy.
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The Open Markets Institute Europe warns that the Commission is failing to seize the full potential of the DMA to address harmful abuses of market power by digital gatekeepers.
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Open Markets Europe director Max von Thun argued in this co-written article that Europe has an opportunity to counter concentrated tech power and assert global economic leadership by aligning digital markets with democratic values and deeper economic integration
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The Open Markets Institute, Balanced Economy Project, Rebalance Now, and SOMO released condemned the European Commission’s decision to allow Google to acquire cloud security firm, Wiz, against expert recommendations for a deeper assessment of the deal.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan emphasizes that Europe doesn’t need to copy America’s model to be competitive; it should double down on strong competition policy to avoid the economic imbalances and harms baked into the US approach.
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In this issue, we explore the legal and economic impact of OpenAI’s deals to lock up supply of memory chips.
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The Open Markets Institute published a blueprint for Europe’s transition towards an open, competitive, and sovereign cloud market, co-authored by Europe director Max von Thun and EU tech policy fellow George Colville.
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The European Commission announced a preliminary finding that Meta may have abused its dominant position by excluding third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp. The Commission intends to impose interim measures to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition. Such measures could include Meta being forced to open WhatsApp to third-party AI assistants. Max von Thun, Director of Europe & Transatlantic Partnerships at the Open Markets Institute, released a following statement.
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The Open Markets Institute released a statement led by Max von Thun, Director of Europe & Transatlantic Partnership a preliminary finding that TikTok’s platform design contributes to addictive use and may violate the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) requiring TikTok to fundamentally change to its business model, including disabling addictive features such as “infinite scroll”.
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Open Markets Institute, alongside partner organisations Article 19, the Balanced Economy Project and SOMO, made a detailed submission to the European Commission urging officials to open an in-depth investigation into Google’s proposed acquisition of the cloud security firm Wiz.
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Europe research fellow Claire Lavin co-wrote an article arguing that Google’s proposed $32 billion acquisition of Wiz would dangerously concentrate control over Europe’s cloud security infrastructure in the hands of a U.S. tech gatekeeper, threatening competition, data governance, and digital sovereignty—and must be rigorously investigated and potentially blocked by EU regulators.
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Barry Lynn condemns travel bans on five European citizens on the theory that their efforts to regulate the behavior of dominant online communications platforms amounted to censorship of American citizens.
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Open Markets Institute helped craft a letter with more than 70 press freedom organisations, businesses, experts, and think tanks urging the European Commission to reject Google’s proposed remedies in the adtech antitrust case.
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Europe director Max von Thun spotlights the EU’s new antitrust investigations into Google and Meta mark a crucial step toward preventing Big Tech from using its platform power to dominate AI, exploit creators, and undermine competition and democratic access to information.
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Europe director Max von Thun argues that Europe’s response to Trump-era pressure on digital regulation must combine tough enforcement against Big Tech with major investment in homegrown technology, warning that efforts to weaken landmark laws like the AI Act and GDPR threaten European sovereignty and democratic security.
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