In a nutshell On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued the long-awaited ruling on the case of Max Schrems, which investigated whether his right of privacy on his personal Facebook data...

This figure shows the accumulated capital stock in software and other computerized information per worker for various European countries for which data is available. In contrast to many other...

By Serena Sileoni, Deputy Director, Instituto Bruno Leoni The EU originated and developed in order to secure for consumers and producers the benefits of a single space for transactions...

By Meelis Kitsing, a lecturer at the Estonian Business School, Director of the Centre for Free Economic Thought The European Union has adopted smart specialization strategy in its innovation...

A new wave of technological changes is reshaping the manufacturing sector in its entirety. Autonomous robotics, additive manufacturing, cloud computing and sensor technology are only few of the new...

By Richard Robert, Executive Director, ParisTech Review The digital single market is a fact. Neither a project, nor an ambition, just a fact. Only thing is, it is in no way limited to European...

In recent years, data localisation requirements have become one of the main threats to the open trading system. As cross-border data flows are integral to a modern economy, restricting the movement...

By Alastair Reed, Renaud Thillaye, Policy Network The European Commission has just set out bold ambitions for a digital single market but achieving the buy-in of member states for pan-European...

By Diego Zuluaga, Institute of Economic Affairs & EPICENTER Tax policy has featured prominently in discussions of the EU’s digital economy for some time. Unfortunately, much of the...

By Cécile Philippe, Director, Institut économique Molinari The Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy for Europe includes several initiatives to be delivered by the end of 2016. Among them, an...