Alexandre De Streel: DMA Review | What Works, What Doesn’t | AI, Advertising & Digital Sovereignty

Alexandre de Streel, Professor of EuropeanLlaw, University of Namur | CERRE Academic Director 02:00 The DMA & Antitrust: connected but different but what does this connection mean? 03:20 Doing the next DMA evaluation differently: why and how 04:20 Three positive takeaways from the DMA Review 08:25 Three negative takeaways from the DMA Review 14:10 Flexibility of DMA obligations as a bug and as a feature 22:20 Will the DMA guidelines limit the scope of competence of the DMA Team and if yes how to mitigate the implications? 25:05 Does the DMA Team want to keep the veil of vagueness? 27:38 Complying with the DMA but also with other rules: is it a race to the bottom? 31:15 Who is winning the game so far: the Commission or the gatekeepers? 36:05 What can we learn from the DSA? 41:10 DMA & online advertising 44:30 DMA & AI 46:40 Designating AI as a separate CPS or treating it as part of designated CPSs 48:05 DMA & digital sovereignty 50:25 Learning from other jurisdictions 52:00 Plans for autumn 2026 52:50 Recommendations to students Previous episode (№164) Interview with John Davies, Co-Leader of Global Antitrust and Competition Practice at Brunswick Group, available here:    • John Davies: DMA Compliance Regime | Draft...   Next episode (№166) The EU Digital Markets Competition Litigation & Compliance Conference de-brief with Stijn Huijts, Miranda Cole & Amaryllis Müller The Digital Markets Research Hub is an independent academic initiative aiming at scrutinising the functioning of competition/regulation in digital markets. We host one-to-one interviews with leading policymakers, regulators and practitioners. We also organise online mini-workshops inviting high-profile experts and academics in various fields of digital competition law & policy to discuss the most vibrant issues of the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets. While having our clear normative stand on the matters discussed within the hub, we value different views and invite relevant stakeholders and thinkers representing the whole spectrum of reasonable positions on how to regulate competition in digital markets. All our materials are available at YouTube channel, which you are very welcome to subscribe to. This interview is co-organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk (School of Law, University of Exeter).