Monday, April 13, 2026

The European approach to artificial intelligence policymaking

 JRC, here

A second piece of rather good news

 

What is particularly encouraging is that he's not someone who has lived exclusively within the competition policy world, but rather who seems to have the benefit of a certain distance, of adjacent regulatory experience, and of looking at the digital sphere in a holistic way. 
A Drago of competition policy? 

An important question is how far he will be able to deal with the organised phalanges of IO economists and traditional competition lawyers, and whether he will be capable of articulating a better vision, including in economic terms.That was where even the great Lina Khan stumbled a bit, IMHO

[At the start of the Irish semester, this 3 y.-old  intervention seems still relevant, and in 2020 he was clear-eyed about the need to pursue technological sovereignty]. 

Innovation in EU Merger Control: Theories of Harm and Efficiencies

M. Peitz, here.  

 

[Disagree, of course]