In this issue, we explore how Lula’s win in Brazil’s elections will allow Brazil to continue its leadership role in regulating Big Tech platforms.
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CMDG welcomed the Paris Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Meta's challenge to the French Competition Authority's interim measures on publishers’ rights.
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Policy and advocacy lead Giorgos Verdi joins Keldon Bester from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project in The Globe and Mail to argue that the EU and Canada must commit to the “tech alliance” promised by Ursula von der Leyen and work together to break away from their shared dependence on American tech platforms and infrastructure.
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In this issue, we explore how a new open-weight AI model from France’s Mistral will affect market structure. We also describe a new report by Open Markets on how the AI bubble will pop soon, and what policymakers should do.
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In this issue, we detail our successful two-day antimonopoly conference in Paris on how U.S. tech corporations threaten human liberty and European democracy and sovereignty, and look at the potential dangers posed by Fox’s takeover of Roku.
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In this issue, we explore how IBM’s stranglehold over mainframe computing, built up over decades, offers a cautionary tale for today’s monopolies in cloud and AI technologies.
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In this issue, we discuss measures Europe has taken to reduce its dependence on U.S. tech corporations and mitigate the risks of technological coercion by the Trump administration.
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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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In this issue, we take a look at how FIFA manipulated World Cup ticket prices, and the lessons for Congress and enforcers.
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In this issue, we take a look at how a new royalty scheme by dominant music streaming service Spotify shortchanges smaller artists in favor of the large music labels.
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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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The Commission's approval comes despite months of warnings fromcivil society, journalists, and thefilm and TV industries that the deal would concentrate an unprecedented share of production, distribution and broadcasting power in the hands of one company, reducing the number of major American studios from four to three.
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Without these orders, the 60% of Europeans who use an Android device would be locked into Gemini as their only system level AI assistant, and Google would continue to leverage its overwhelming monopoly over search data to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors in AI development.
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Policy and advocacy lead Giorgos Verdi argues that the EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is a promising step toward reducing Europe’s dependence on U.S. technology firms, but warned it will fall short unless Europe also confronts the market concentration that allows Big Tech to dominate AI, cloud, chips, and digital infrastructure.
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Open Markets Institute has welcomed the European Commission's draft merger guidelines as a major, overdue modernisation of EU competition rules – part of a once-in-a-generation review – while also urging the Commission to close loopholes which risk undermining progress.
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Max von Thun and Claire Lavin argue that merger guideline progress is undermined by the introduction of a bias for scale and efficiency loopholes, which give large corporations more paths to complete a merger.
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The Open Markets Institute Europe welcomes the preliminary decision by the European Commission to designate Amazon and Microsoft as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
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