The last 12 months have seen an extraordinary shift in the European Commission’s approach to digital regulation. Faced with intense geopolitical uncertainty and concerns about EU competitiveness and security, we are seeing a shift away from the espoused ‘Brussels Effect’, with the EU placing itself as a global rule setter and emphasising fundamental rights at the centre of its strategy to digital regulation. At the heart of such concerns is the much-hyped potential of so-called ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI). In the policy shift, one of the major forces shaping the European Commission’s agenda may be described as AI FOMO (‘fear of missing out’) … (more)
[Felix Bieker and Katherine Nolan, Verfassungsblog, 29 January 2026]
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