Podcast Selection

EU ventures to regulate e-commerce’s breakneck growth

The European Union is stepping up its oversight of major online platforms (VLOPs) on multiple fronts. Today Parliament debates reforms to the customs code to protect consumer rights in the digital space, while the European…

L’IA s’en va-t-en guerre

Dans cet épisode, nous avons le plaisir de recevoir Laure de Roucy-Rochegonde, responsable du Programme Géopolitique des technologies de l'Ifri. Elle vient de co-écrire un article dans le dernier numéro de la revue Politique étrangère…

EU antitrust chief Vestager to leave Commission with a bang

EU antitrust head Margrethe Vestager is wrapping up her tenure at the European Commission with two major victories as the European court of Justice ruled against Apple’s Irish tax arrangements and Google’s anti-competitive practices. These…

Will European Commission let AI providers write their own rules?

Despite the EU’s attempts to keep up with the breakneck speed of AI’s progress, NGOs fear the bloc is taking a step back in the demanding fight to regulate the technology. Reports suggest that the…

The Great Firewall: How China regulates big tech

In the past couple of decades, China has produced a multitude of big tech giants. Companies like Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and others are well on their way to becoming household names, unique in their ability…

The Commission’s coordination failures in AI investment

The European Commission kicked off plans to boost investments in its AI sector back in 2018. But they were neither clearly defined, nor well coordinated, argued the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in a report released this…

Do EU tech rules add up?

How does the EU manage its increasingly vast number of digital laws? Bertin Martens, Kai Zenner and Rebecca Christie discuss how these rules are made, how they work together and how they fit in with…

Letta’s tech insights: Taking a dive into the report

Zooming in US-China tech rivalry

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Yuyun Zhan sits down with Alicia García-Herrero and Paul Triolo to discuss China’s innovation drive and how it compares with the US on key technologies, including semiconductors,…

AI’s electricity problem

Unpacking the EU’s crackdown on Big Tech

Does the EU need to go further in competition policy for tech?

This week we talk to Max von Thun, Europe Director at the Open Markets Institute about competition policy. Amid a barrage of measures and investigations on digital competition in recent weeks, the think tank co-authored…