Europe

Rather than blanket social media bans, policymakers should adopt privacy-preserving tools that empower parents and teens to manage online safety directly.

For the EIA to succeed, the Commission needs to address Europe’s broader economic policy environment. The EU’s reliance on the precautionary principle has entrenched a risk-first mindset that slows innovation and diverts resources away from competition and quality improvement.

The antitrust procedural framework can be improved by measures that create a less burdensome and more objective evidentiary process, as well as provide investigated parties with greater access to the Commission’s complete file.

The European Commission’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report misframes the U.S. as a rival on par with China, risking transatlantic unity and protectionist policies that weaken Europe while leaving China free to dominate critical technologies.

DMA is not an effective tool of competition policy. On the contrary, it has resulted in demonstrable consumer welfare losses, chilled procompetitive behavior, and even harmed small businesses. What’s more, it has done so by imposing obligations and penalties that inexcusably target America’s leading technology companies.

European consumers report a decline in online experiences since the Digital Markets Act took effect, as regulatory restrictions on platform integration and data use have reduced functionality, slowed searches, and fragmented services across maps, travel, jobs, and more.

It should be clear to everyone that unless Western, democratic, market-based economies start working together instead of against each other, China will dominate.

The focus of the guidelines is to help assess whether a merger would significantly impede effective competition or create or strengthen a dominant position. Unfortunately, this structural understanding of competition differs from a conception of competition as either a dynamic process or a consumer welfare proscription, both of which are far better suited to having a productive and growing economy.

EU regulatory regimes discriminate against leading U.S. tech firms, chill innovation and the liberties that underlie a culture of freedom, encourage copycat regulations around the world, and undermine the West’s competitiveness against China.

France has embarked on an ambitious program to build at least six new large nuclear reactors, applying lessons from recent overruns and delays. While success is far from guaranteed, there are important lessons for the United States as it seeks to jump-start its own nuclear sector through recent ambitious executive orders.