Podcast Selection

Mergers and partnerships: 2024’s successes, surprises, and failures so far

Together with Lazar Radic, Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University, we discuss this year’s tech competition news so far, such…

How social media is shaping the 2024 EU elections

Together with Katja Muñoz, research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Technology, we talk about the impact of social media and technology on the 2024 European Parliament elections, TikTok and Meta’s…

AI Act accomplished, Germany left with unanswered questions

With Klaus Landefeld, Vice Chairman of the Management Board at the Association of the Internet Industry (eco), we discuss the outcome of the AI Act and its implications for Germany. One point of discussion is…

On the path to UN’s Global Digital Compact

As the United Nations are preparing to adopt the Global Digital Compact later this year, we discussed this initiative with Tech Envoy Amandeep Singh Gill and what it means for internet governance, Artificial Intelligence and…

The AI Act in perspective

As the AI Act’s text is finally consolidate, we tried to put the landmark law in a broader perspective with Luciano Floridi, leading expert in AI ethics and Founding Director of Yale’s Digital Ethics Center.

The EU’s future computing ecosystem

Joined by Gustav Kalbe previous head of unit for Quantum and now acting director for this research field, we talk about the EU’s plans to build a future ecosystem of super- and quantum computers. This podcast episode…

Data competition: EU’s year in review and what lies ahead

With Aline Blankertz, Policy and Public Sector Officer at Wikimedia, we have a look at the big events that happened in the areas of data policy and competition in 2023 and discuss the EU’s future…

AI Act’s post-agreement commentary

Following the political agreement on the AI Act last week, we caught up with Kris Shrishak, a Enforce Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and Philipp Hacker, Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society…

Digital empires: The global battle to regulate technology

“Digital empires” – the geopolitical entities that wield their influence and control in the digital landscape – shape much of how we interact with the online world. Currently, the United States, China, and the European…

Algorithm audits in the Digital Services Act

The European Commission adopted the delegated act regulating the auditing of algorithms under the DSA last month. We discussed the challenges in this field and possible implications in terms of technical standards and interlinks with…

What does AI mean for Europe?

In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Zach Meyers, Assistant Director of the CER, is joined by Kai Zenner, Head of Office and digital policy advisor to MEP Axel Voss, to discuss AI’s implications for Europe.…

The Digital Services Act at its first test

The re-explosion of the Middle East’s conflict has brought a flood of illegal and harmful content across the web. We discussed how this crisis is, for the first time, testing the Digital Services Act, the…