Empowering European digital leaders: After regulation, let’s quickly promote innovation

 

As EU lawmakers approved the final agreement on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Strasbourg, it is vital to go further and help European digital champions emerge. This is why we are defending the implementation of a “Buy European Tech Act” in order to make Europe a real digital power, writes Stéphanie Yon-Courtin.  

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin is a Renew Europe MEP and vice-chair of the ECON committee in the European Parliament. 

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Europe’s landmark digital regulation has laid the groundwork in record time for a new framework that will hold digital giants accountable and limit their monopoly position by dusting off competition law.

After the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union is once again asserting itself as a normative power with the adoption of an unprecedented regulatory arsenal that lays down new obligations in terms of content management and competition: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). (...)