While transpositions in many Member States remain stalled, Germany’s is underway, gold-plating a new law to restrict high-risk components from critical sectors
Australia: Designing a digital duty of care
Though a duty of care aligns well with the approaches in the EU and UK, the Australian Government is signalling it will go further than its peers in regulating online safety
DMA: Investigating Google Search rankings
Google claims that the contentious policy at the heart of the EC’s latest DMA investigation is in fact part of its efforts to comply with the DSA
UK: Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
The bill represents the Government’s effort to tool up to strengthen cybersecurity, as regulated firms struggle to keep pace with intensifying attacks
Q3 2025 results: Regulatory and policy highlights
European operators used Q3 earnings to stress the need for regulatory reform and in-market consolidation. Regulators were urged to adopt pro-investment, pro-consolidation frameworks to boost competitiveness.
Ofcom closes its business messaging market review
Carrying through with its original proposals would have made the UK an outlier in the regulation of A2P SMS termination rates
Switzerland: Copycatting the DSA
Though the proposed legislation reflects core features of the EU law, the Swiss Government has not incorporated measures to protect children online, bucking global trends
Event debrief: Capacity Europe 2025
With important reforms looming in Europe, the regulatory model in France was singled out as having successfully enabled fibre investment and competition
Event debrief: Digital Networks Act: Rewriting the DNA of Europe’s Open Internet?
A broadly partisan crowd rejected both deregulating and expanding current regulation, while criticising “terrible” network traffic analogies
Understanding the GDPR’s interplay with the DSA and DMA
The EC and EDPB are seeking to provide regulatory certainty for platforms navigating the overlaps in the EU’s digital regulation through proposed interplay guidelines
