The European media industry is an essential contributor to Europe's democratic, cultural and economic life, but it faces significant competitive and technology challenges in the digital era. In line with the European Media and Audiovisual Action Plan, DG CONNECT launched two studies setting out...

The "Geo-blocking Regulation," introduced in 2018, addresses discriminatory online practices affecting consumers based on their location, residence, or nationality. The present study is part of on-going monitoring and seeks to provide a holistic review of the evolution of cross-border e-commerce...

This paper presents a legal and economic analysis of business-to-business (B2B) data markets. It starts from the economic characteristics of data and explores to what extent private B2B data markets result in a socially optimal degree of data sharing, or whether there are market failures in data...