"Changes in consumer behavior – primarily, audiences increasingly relying on [Google] AI Overviews instead of visiting publisher-owned websites – was cited as the chief reason behind Bauer Media’s realignment of its publishing business. "
digiday.com/media/bauer-...
Good afternoon from Global Progressive Mobilization in Barcelona, the Spanish PSOE’s globalised political convention (left-leaning CPAC). Sanchez, Lula up tomorrow #gpm2026
"We have surrendered our vision of the future to the marketing departments of huge techno-monopolists; and yet there is a separate story of the technological future being enacted by billions of people in their daily lives."
– Mohsin Hamid on new @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement. Intriguing!
.@tteresaribera.ec.europa.eu has a message for critics of the EU: you may just be jealous of Europe's high quality of life. Aka don't be a hater.
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/18/w...
In a continent of GmbHs, SpAs and Sarls, why EU Inc? My backgrounder on the linguistic spat over what to call the EU's proposal to loosen corporate set-up rules, and what it says about a key market liberalization effort of a deregulatory-minded Commission.
www.politico.eu/article/brus...
"The findings throw a spotlight on a lobbying practice starting to spread through Europe: Letters demanding controversial policy changes in the name of companies loosely associated with the organizers to boost their influence." 👀
On the eve of the February EU leaders summit, a corporate coalition purporting to represent 1,350 companies & groups signed off on a letter calling for the weakening of EU climate rules. The catch? Not all of them actually signed it.
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
One of Apple's very few rival mobile app marketplaces, launched in hopes of seizing on the DMA, says that it will shut down in February due to uncertainty around Apple's EU fee structure.
dig.watch/updates/eu-a...
Why IT consultancies – even European ones like Capgemini – might be "trojan horses for American solutions" hampering the EU's digital sovereignty efforts.
www.journaldunet.com/cybersecurit...
Early Brussels response to Trump’s Greenland tariff threat ⬇️
"“Google’s commitments are a good example of how the work of national authorities on consumer protection law complements the Commission’s enforcement of the DMA to achieve better results,” a Commission spokesperson said" indeed!
EU trade chief Šefčovič says Beijing will loosen the restrictions on chips that had raised alarm bells among automakers, following US-China truce. Mofcom warns though that the trigger of the crisis – the Dutch seizing of Nexperia – remains unresolved.
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
Apple AirPods live translation is coming to Europe after all, after initially blaiming the DMA.
The @ec.europa.eu response: “The aim of our digital [rules] is to preserve innovation...And this is exactly what we see today.”
www.politico.eu/article/appl...
A message from Brussels to Google: Would you break yourself up, please?
The tech giant faces a deadline to explain how it’ll comply with an EU ruling that found it illegally maintained its grip on online ad infrastructure.
"Apple’s high-margin services business [...] has doubled in size over the past five years, making it a vital source of growth at a time when iPhone sales have become less dependable."
www.ft.com/content/3687...
These are really great.
2024 @nytimes.com publication, accompanying an opinion piece, titled „My Country Shows What Europe Has Become”, by Belgian essayist Anton Jäger. The two images are extracts from my M.A. graduation work on the visuality of (EU) political communication and were both taken in Brussel’s EU district.
Margrethe Vestager says she has no 'phantom pains' about her power as Commissioner:
"[Power] comes with a very, very big responsibility. Because if power is a tool to solve problems, then you have to solve those problems. If you don't, you are not worthy of it"
www.lederstof.dk/margrethe-ve...
"By you" –> Tomorrow's conference on European competiveness will take place behind closed doors. No press allowed, but plenty of lobbies on the programme (BusinessEurope, European Banking Federation, and more).
.@ec.europa.eu: “This is a unilateral decision by Apple. The Commission has not been consulted and we are not able to understand the nature of Apple’s concerns.”
🚨 BREAKING: The EU Commission's Teresa Ribera has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, the strongest condemnation yet to come out of Brussels.
Read the story: ow.ly/4SJs50WRcuP
“It’s survival of the strongest – You think about how you were and how you are now, like you’re an animal running around to get food.”
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
Mario Draghi, at Rencontres d'Aix, on the DMA:
“One good thing that should not be changed is the DMA because that is actually the only thing we have to protect our industry in Europe, our small industry especially, from the big hypers scalers, the big US companies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlU...
A year after @ec.europa.eu (with 🇺🇸) effectively blocked Adobe takeover, Figma files for IPO. "Proof that antitrust matters," per @dohamekki.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/f...
"The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I'm still processing. It's like being built from a library's ashes."
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
Lawmakers/civil society groups raise alarm bell on DMA enforcement as @ec.europa.eu says everything – including tech regulation – on the table in U.S.-EU trade talks.
www.politico.eu/article/grow...
Kokott's full opinion: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jo0co...
#Google should lose its appeal of €4.124 billion Android abuse of dominance fine, per Advocate General in opinion. Full judgment yet to come.
@ec.europa.eu has published the full text of its DMA non-compliance decisions against Apple (including how it determined the €500m fine amount)
ec.europa.eu/competition/...
