Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun weighs in on today’s widespread IT outage and how it exposes the great risk in monopolistic corporations controlling our communications systems.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun’s recent article in ProMarket was cited in The Brookings Institute, which dismissed the notion of creating European champions.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun last week participated in an event hosted by Oxford University on the intersection of retail trends and competition policy, where he spoke on a panel on the relationship between the high street and Big Tech, and how we can level the playing field.
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Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Max von Thun demands a new economic vision for the European Union by pursuing competition to create a robust political economy that can take back power from corporate behemoths.
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On Monday April 15th, The Open Markets institute and a coalition of organizations committed to challenging monopoly power in Europe brought together leading policymakers and thinkers for a half-day conference in Brussels.
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Open Markets Europe director Max Von Thun was interviewed on “The Tech Brief” podcast, where he discussed how Europe can better approach competition policy and directed listeners to a recently published manifesto, which outlined how the European Union can put antimonopoly at the heart of its policy agenda.
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The Open Markets Institute and several civil society partners active in the European Union have published “Rebalancing Europe: A New Economic Agenda for Tackling Monopoly Power,” a new manifesto for the next European Commission and Parliament that sets out how policymakers should more effectively address monopoly power and control in Europe.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on Europe’s failure to check monopolization of the emerging AI space by Big Tech monopolies, illustrated by the partnership between Microsoft and Paris-based Mistral AI.ok.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on Europe’s diverging views from the U.S. on the threat emanating from Chinese-owned TikTok.
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Open Markets and partner civil society organisations active in Europe urge the European Commission to address early concentration in the AI market.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted saying that Big Tech companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google use cosmetic changes to circumvent Europe’s Digital Markets Act.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted for speaking on a $2 billion fine the European Commission slapped on Apple for unfair practices within its app store.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on the multiyear partnership between Microsoft and European AI startup Mistral..
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun was thoughts on the multiyear partnership between Microsoft and European AI startup Mistral were published.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun points out that a fine levied by EU regulators on Apple for unfair practices in the music streaming market is insufficient.
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Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Max von Thun urges Brussels to use its existing powers under competition law and the Digital Markets Act to challenge Big Tech’s growing influence over AI in this article.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement regarding Amazon’s announcement it will no longer seek to acquire home robotics firm, iRobot.
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OMI Europe director Max von Thun quoted, commenting on how new European regulations aimed at forcing Apple to release its stranglehold over its App Store have only led Apple to issue new fees that reinforce its control.
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A coalition of civil society groups including Open Markets, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Mozilla, Foxglove and more wrote to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) calling for a full investigation into Microsoft's $13 billion monopolistic partnership with OpenAI.
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