14 July 2026
Press-Release Governance
On 10 July 2026, the European Commission announced that it had preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the “addictive design” of Instagram and Facebook. The Commission considers that Meta should disable autoplay and infinite scroll by default, build in real screen-time breaks, and make the recommender system “less engagement-oriented”. The decision is better understood from its strategic and symbolic dimensions in view of its contestable legal basis. Continue reading >>
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03 December 2025
EU’s Digital Sovereignty and the Rights-Based Imperative
On 18 November 2025 in Berlin, during the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, the EU Member States signed the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty. The Berlin Declaration rightly highlights the need to mitigate digital dependencies and to advance the EU’s technological capabilities. Yet what remains strikingly absent is an explicit recognition of the fundamental rights and a stronger commitment to enforcement. Sovereignty is not only about building European chips, clouds, or AI models, it is also about ensuring that EU law can be effectively applied and enforced – including against powerful non-EU companies. Continue reading >>
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