Andreas Schwab, Dóra Dávid, Johnny Ryan: What's Next for European Digital Markets | Pan-European Way
MEP Andreas Schwab, Chief Rapporteur on the Digital Markets Act at the European Parliament.
MEP Dóra Dávid, Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, (ex-Meta)
Johnny Ryan, Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and a Senior Fellow at the Open Markets Institute
This is our 100th episode – an opportunity to thank all amazing guests helping us to navigate in these uncharted waters of digital markets regulation. Thank You. I hope this will continue…
With the latest reshuffling in the world's most advanced and mature jurisdictions, this question is being asked more and more often: 'what is next in terms of adopting new and enforcing the existing EU digital legislation – and in particular the rules shaping competition in digital markets?’ To shed some light on this persistent question I invited for a frank conversation LINK three excellent speakers: one of the founding fathers of the DMA – MEP Andreas Schwab; a newly elected MEP (and a former Meta counsel) Dóra Dávid and one of the brightest minds in the expert community of data science a Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and a Senior Fellow at the Open Markets Institute (and former Chief Policy Officer at Brave and Chief Innovation Officer at The Irish Times) Johnny Ryan. We have discussed inter alia the following:
• How do the guests read, and what conclusions do they make from the Letta and Draghi Reports?
• De-industrialisation of many sectors of European economy is one of the features of the new reality. How to approach this issue?
• The DMA was enormous co-legislative success. Now 1 year of the DMA enforcement: what have we learned? Are we moving in the right direction and with the right speed?
Does Europe need its own BigTech? If yes – how to build it? If not – would we risk downshifting to the second tier?
• Should European tech sector be different (green, privacy-minded, federated)? Or should we just copy more successful counterparts to Europe’s West and to its East?
• More specifically, do they think we should focus our priorities on the sectors where we are still the leaders (say, focusing on industrial AI and forgetting consumer-focused BigTech) or should we try (one more time) to catch up?
• How to attract private capital to the European Tech?
• European military sector
• How to streamline EU success and investment in R&D from research to commercialisation?
• How to re-focus Member State’s very understandable self-prioritisation into the pan-European direction?
• What should we expect from the new Parliament and the new Commission in the following five years in the area of digital markets?
• Recommendations to students – and many other important points
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In the previous episode (No. 99, published last Tuesday) I had a pleasure to interview Martin Husovec on the links between the DMA & DSA • Martin Husovec, LSE Law School: Digital Se... In the next episode (No. 101, to be published next Tuesday) we’ll publish an interview – not only because it is episode 101 – with one of the main pilots as far as Art 101 TFEU enforcement concerns – Maria Jaspers, Director at the Cartels Directorate, the European Commission’s DG COMP.
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The Digital Markets Research Hub is an independent academic initiative aiming at scrutinising the functioning of competition/regulation in digital markets. We host one-to-one interviews with leading policymakers, regulators and practitioners. We also organise online mini-workshops inviting high-profile experts and academics in various fields of digital competition law & policy to discuss the most vibrant issues of the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets. While having our clear normative stand on the matters discussed within the hub, we value different views and invite relevant stakeholders and thinkers representing the whole spectrum of reasonable positions on how to regulate competition in digital markets. All our materials are available at YouTube channel, which you are very welcome to subscribe to. This panel is organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk, School of Law, University of Exeter.