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The UK’s move in competition policy

Since Brexit, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has regained its status as a prominent competition enforcer. As the British Parliament is set to adopt a bill that will increase the CMA’s powers and introduce…

What are Hungary’s conditions for lifting its Ukraine Facility veto?

In this episode, Euractiv’s Beyond the Byline podcast takes a deep dive into the agreement reached by EU member states to initiate talks with the European Parliament concerning a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine.…

The starting gun in the race for EU’s top jobs

In this episode of EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast, we look into European Council President Charles Michel’s recent announcement that he will step down from his current position and run in the European parliamentary election…

Data competition: EU’s year in review and what lies ahead

With Aline Blankertz, Policy and Public Sector Officer at Wikimedia, we have a look at the big events that happened in the areas of data policy and competition in 2023 and discuss the EU’s future…

Algorithm audits in the Digital Services Act

The European Commission adopted the delegated act regulating the auditing of algorithms under the DSA last month. We discussed the challenges in this field and possible implications in terms of technical standards and interlinks with…

The Digital Services Act at its first test

The re-explosion of the Middle East’s conflict has brought a flood of illegal and harmful content across the web. We discussed how this crisis is, for the first time, testing the Digital Services Act, the…

The AI Act seen from the European Parliament

The negotiations on the AI Act are at a critical stage, with important chapters such as foundation models, governance, and law enforcement still on the table. We caught up with Brando Benifei, one of the…

The Cyber Resilience Act and the future of open source software

EU policymakers are hashing out their approach to open source software in the Cyber Resilience Act. We discussed how this regulation would affect the open source software community with Bert Hubert, an IT developer and…

VDL’s Western Balkan tour: Promises and warnings on EU enlargement

This week the Beyond the Byline podcast looks at Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s tour of the Western Balkans. The EU executive chief talked to leaders of Western Balkans countries to encourage their governments…

Slovak general elections result: the EU’s DSA enforcement challenges ahead

Slovaks voted last Saturday on 30 September, but criticism abounded over the extensive abuse of political disinformation across online platforms – just as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the legislation tackling illegal content online, entered…

Nagorno-Karabakh: What is happening and what is the EU’s outlook?

This week, Euractiv’s Beyond the Byline podcast takes a deep dive into the evolving crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh.  Thousands of ethnic Armenians living in the territory have been displaced following Azerbaijan's recent offensive to regain control…

EU prepping for post-quantum encryption

The first episode of the two-part podcast series focusses on the EU’s preparedness for post-quantum encryption. With Heike Hagemeier, an expert at the German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, and Andrea Garcia Rodriguez, Lead…