The Danish EU Council Presidency, running until December 2025, pledges to push simplification and better regulation. Beyond agriculture, it has a chance to review Better regulation guidelines, improve consultations, ensure honest polling, and cut red tape to boost EU competitiveness.
EMFA takes effect, aiming to boost plurality, transparency, and journalist protection. Broad media definition, conditional source safeguards, media concentration rules, state funding controls, and a powerful new EU media board raise both hopes and concerns.
The Amsterdam court will have to decide between compensating hotels for past losses or focusing on Booking.com’s current conduct, highlighting the broader tension between market fairness and Europe’s global tech competitiveness.
The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of CSAM scanning and chat control. Now, they hold the keys to make it a reality.
Meta and Google will end political ads in the EU ahead of the TTPA’s 2025 rollout. The regulation’s broad definition of political advertising and extensive obligations for platforms have led to unintended consequences - not just for politicians, but also for think tanks and NGOs.
Despite an EU–US tariff deal, regulatory tensions remain. The upcoming EU Space Act is likely to raise U.S. concerns over non-tariff barriers and EU Member States' concerns over a potential legal collision.
Revolut is rolling out local IBANs and expanding its presence across Western Europe. One of the factors behind this move is to bypass “IBAN discrimination”, where public and private institutions reject foreign account numbers, highlighting gaps in the EU’s Single Market for the financial sector.
The White House says the EU has committed to not introducing network fees, a significant step in transatlantic digital policy talks. While details about the EU's true commitment remain unclear, such fees risk undermining net neutrality and raising consumer costs, as seen in South Korea.
Germany and Austria have launched simple AI service desks to guide companies under the AI Act. The EU’s €2M version, expected by August 2025, will rely on human staff for general guidance (not thorough legal advice) and respond in 12 EU languages within 2 days.
The American AI Action Plan pushes for “global dominance”, and the EU should follow suit where possible, particularly with regulatory feedback loops and stronger military AI capacity at the Member State level.
EU Justice Ministers met in Copenhagen to discuss targeted GDPR simplification. While the Commission rules out a full review, momentum is growing to ease burdens, especially for SMEs and scale-ups, which are key to Europe's competitiveness.
The Danish EU Presidency is pushing GDPR reform to boost competitiveness, proposing SME-friendly changes like limiting data rights in low-risk cases, simplifying DPIAs, and requiring prior engagement before complaints. Broader reforms may still be needed for hyperscalers.
