As the telecom and tech community welcomes 2026, it is tempting to believe that the “AI decade” has finally and irreversibly arrived. Yet the numbers and the industrial dynamics suggest something more […]
Happy 2026, but beware the AI bubble!
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The “Breton affair” and its questionable timing
Just as Washington chooses to target Thierry Breton, Europe is opening regulatory pipelines that could become far more inconvenient for American Big Tech than the former French commissioner’s tweets and letters. The […]
Where is the fair share in the EU?
The debate on “fair share” concerns the question of whether technology companies that provide Internet services through telecommunications networks should contribute to their financing. Telecom operators have generally and often repeatedly demanded […]
Vestager wins with Apple and Google, points the way for the next European Competition Commissioner
Today is a big day for Margrethe Vestager, the outgoing European Commissioner for Competition. The European Court of Justice has recognized her with two important, and above all definitive, victories against the […]
Why the Pavel Durov case may mark a point of no return in the relations between Europe and global platforms
The Pavel Durov case may mark a point of no return in the relations between Europe and the large global online platforms that are based outside of the EU (the United States, […]
BEREC questions Commission’s deregulatory ambitions
Berec has published its High Level Input to the Commission’s White Paper “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”. Berec’s comments were well-awaited, considering that in the previous consultation in 2023 (the […]
Foundation Models: how they are regulated in the AI ACT
With the vote in Coreper on 2 February, 2024 EU Member States formally and definitively approved the text of the AI ACT which had been agreed by the Trilogue on 6 December […]
Fair share: what stage is the legislative proposal on the Internet tax?
Fair share has not attracted the consensus that was expected The “fair share” debate is certainly the telecommunications’ hype of 2023, both at European and national level. This subject has become an […]
Ireland to weaken GDPR enforcement in all EU
Ireland wants to gag those who raise EU privacy cases before its own national regulator, the DPC (Data Protection Commission). It might seem like a local judicial dispute, but instead it is […]
Maximum number of taxi licenses are in principle outlaw under EU legislation
National rules imposing a maximum number of taxi licenses are illegitimate if the fundamental justification is to protect the economic viability of the service: that is, the income of taxi drivers and/or the […]
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