The EU has built the world's densest digital rulebook but cannot enforce it: 171 laws, 315 EU-level bodies, and enforcement that bends under political pressure. This Strategy Note, written with Maria Koomen, sets out a sequenced way out. A cooperation forum in 2027, the transformation of HaDEA into an independent Digital Enforcement Agency within the next EU budget, and treaty reform thereafter. Published ahead of the Commission's Digital Fitness Check, as a starting point fo

The next update of my external activities summarises the events, podcasts, and publications from Eastern (April) to the Summer Break (July). Everything was very much dominated by the end of the AI Omnibus negotiations as well as the beginning of the Digital (Data) Omnibus discussions, which led both to a few agenda changes along the way.

The new Factsheet incorporates the Platform Work Directive as well as the European Commission's 2022 Work Programme.