NYT, here.

 Commenting on a CERRE Report, here. Perhaps they also asked somebody else, later, but sorry: I can't watch any further.

 Linux Foundation, here. Coincidence? Google is increasingly closing Android, as we heard last week at the Article 19 Conference.

 OECD, here. Tbd today, Trento U.

 Barcelona, whereelse here.

 OECD, Background Paper here. I had expected rather more. Consumer associations were barely mentioned, and broader civil society did not appear at all. But, of course,why change course, given how extraordinarily effective our remedies have been so far? A veritable Sternstunde of antitrust, especially in digital markets...

 Here.

 MyData, here.

 Independent, here. [But the title is, well, wrong].

 D. Dayen, here.

 ADLC, ici.

 Open Future, here.

--- Fooled once...  EDPS, here.

 BBC, here. I have listened to the whole thing, and the Q&A was, I suspect, the part I appreciated most. The "straight out of Silicon Valley" comments about Europe, forever regulating, never producing, felt rather surprising  - if the world were that simple (that's why we need good historians with hindsight)! True, we do risk turning ourselves into a dusty, romantic museum, but only if we fail to make intelligent use *also* of our own heritage, including through digital tools that are not simply parachuted in from California but adapted to our needs. And happily, a young ‘populist left’  has already emerged with exemplary standard-bearers such as Lina Khan among them.

 Adlc, ici.

--- 25/11/2025 ACGM, here.  I wrote a blog post on this proceeding what feels like very long ago, [here] "Meta’s new conduct appears to constitute, already prima facie, a possible violation of Article 102 TFEU, consisting in Meta’s refusal to allow AI chatbot or AI assistant providers—its competitors—to access the WhatsApp platform in order to offer such services to users." It was such a low hanging fruit that I was puzzled that other Tech bros weren't openly complaining about it - which hinted to the fact that they might have been pursuing other, possibly murkier strategies. When (also?) small (EU?) ones complained, European CAs were listening...

--- Xmas present to Judge Mehta? For your desk? FT, here.

 Politico.eu, here.

We are only a few days on from the Berlin summit on European Digital Sovereignty, where the DMA  was celebrated as an essential component to reaching that objective.  It is evidently displeasing to Americans that they were not granted a prominent role at a European technological summit, even though they remained very much the Elephants in the Room. Then the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is dispatched by Big Tech to Brussels and applies pressure across the board, anchoring the negotiation to tariffs on steel and aluminium on whether we are prepared to weaken our own rules on the DMA and the DSA. And this hurts, also common Germans, as pointed out by the MEP Alexandra Geese. The Digital Omnibus,  neatly arranged on a tray, proved insufficient to placate the American technological ogres. One must recognise that the DMA (and the DSA) are among the last bastions still standing at the moment, and that a possible _Brussels Débâcle_ would carry profound, global implications. If we yield as Europeans, we yield also on behalf of all the other countries attempting to contain the power of the technological ogres. This _Brussels Débâcle_  may take various forms and shapes. I do not expect a retreat, but I fear that the line may shift. Some impactful changes, adjustments and delays agreed behind closed doors, at the highest level of the Commission, remain invisible to us and significantly undermine the democratic position of us, the citizens of the European Union. In the meanwhile, Margrethe Vestager [reacted to this frontal attack, among many others: serious stuff]

 Here.

 OHCHR, here.

 Here.

 Podcast here.

 T. Wu, here.

 AGCM, here.