Week 3
Weekly Overview
To understand AI governance in Europe, we need to get to know the broader digital regulatory ecosystem that preceded and shaped it. This week steps back from AI-specific policies to explore Europe's comprehensive digital governance strategy, including the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Let’s also think about how the EU AI Act and AI Office fit into Europe's larger “digital sovereignty project”. At its core, this project aims to reduce dependency on non-European technology companies and infrastructure while establishing Europe as a global standard-setter for digital regulation. Key debates center around balancing economic competitiveness with regulatory protection and determining how prescriptive versus principles-based regulations should be.
Next week, we’ll take a closer look at related efforts that aim to build sovereignty by making Europe’s AI infrastructure and industrial capacity more competitive.
Weekly Goals
Map the European digital governance landscape and understand how different regulations (DSA, DMA, GDPR, AI Act) work together
Understand Europe's evolving relationship with Big Tech across different regulatory domains
Analyse how AI governance builds on existing frameworks
Evaluate the coherence of EU digital strategy and assess whether Europe's multi-layered approach to digital governance creates effective oversight or regulatory complexity that could undermine digital competitiveness
