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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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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Europe director Max von Thun briefed in a testimony the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee on Europe’s deep dependence on U.S. cloud giants, urging lawmakers to use existing regulatory tools to open the market and ensure Europe can build sovereign, resilient cloud and AI infrastructure.
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Open Markets welcomes the European Commission’s three market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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In a statement from Max von Thun, Open Markets condemns Google’s insufficient remedies, proposed in the EU, regarding its conflicts of interests in the adtech stack.
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The Open Markets Institute Europe submitted observations to the European Commission as part of its consultation on the review of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”).
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The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 hosted on October 15th & 16th a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates who discussed the direct and growing threats to our democracies and basic liberties posed by today’s dominant online communications platforms, the rise of AI, and interference by foreign states.
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CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch and Europe director Max von Thun author a brief arguing that dominant U.S. platforms such as Google, Meta and X wield unprecedented power to manipulate political discourse, censor individuals and organizations, and shape the flow of information across Europe, the United States and beyond. At the same time, and in coordination with these corporations, the current U.S. administration has launched an “unprecedented assault” on Europe’s right to regulate these corporations in the public interest.
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Max von Thun, Europe Director at the Open Markets Institute, co-authored a piece with fellow Claire Lavin urging the European Commission to revise its merger guidelines. They argue that competition policy must look beyond prices to safeguard innovation, security, and democracy—ensuring a stronger and more resilient European Union.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement in response to the European Commission’s decision to fine Google €3 billion for abusing its dominance in the adtech market and ordering the internet giant to end its illegal conduct.
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Open Markets Institute Europe submitted more than 20 pages of recommendations to the European Commission as part of its consultation on updating the EU’s Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades.
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Open Markets Institute joined over 50 civil society groups in urging the European Commission to stand firm against U.S. interference in the EU’s digital rulemaking.
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Max von Thun applauds a new report on tech algorithms and misinformation from the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
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