Jacob Parry
@jacob-parry.bsky.social
Journalist at @POLITICOEurope covering European competition and industrial policy.
#Tech: EU court hands Brussels win over #Apple on #BigTech rules.The ruling by the General Court strengthens the European Commission’s enforcement of the #DigitalMarketsAct, by @jacob-parry.bsky.social | Politico www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
EU court hands Brussels win over Apple on Big Tech rules
The ruling by the General Court strengthens the European Commission’s enforcement of the Digital Markets Act.
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Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin to @news.rte.ie on concerns (vis-a-vis @johnnyryan.bsky.social) that Ireland has a conflict of interest on EU tech policy files: "There is no evidence actually that Ireland is any softer” on tech enforcement than any other EU member state. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Interview with Taoiseach, Micheál Martin
Taoiseach, Micheál Martin joins Morning Ireland in the studio as Ireland takes over the Presidency of the European Union.
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EU ministers attending the July industry council meeting in Dublin will get a tour of the (Diageo-owned) Guinness factory and talk from Diageo on it's preferred lobbying topics of single market reform, competitiveness and decarbonisation.
The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech How well the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web 🧵👇️ (1/10) 📖Read more:
The EU’s Big Tech law was meant to move fast. It hasn’t.
As the Digital Markets Act enters its third year, critics say enforcement is drifting toward the same delays that have plagued traditional antitrust probes.
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Eurovision isn't influenced by politics? Tell that to Abba, which won in 1974 after French President George Pompidou died unexpectedly days before the contest, leading France's Dani ("La Vie à vingt-cinq ans") to pull out. Abba won with Waterloo no less.
Some interesting insights into the strangulation of the Palestinian economy from an event today in the EP hosted by @anamirandapaz.bsky.social,@oxfameu.bsky.social and Rima Hassan. Output of olive oil has dropped from ±38k tonnes to under 8k last year, largely due to settler violence /1
The 'Big Five' giants of the English-language book market - Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan - are strangling libraries by forcing extorionate pricing and licensing terms for e-books, warns Irish MEP Barry Andrews www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Barry Andrews: Big publishers are ripping off our public libraries
Libraries are for everyone. In a noisy and hectic world, they are one of the few quiet places we have left, but the public library model is in danger, writes Barry Andrews
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Amazon's grip on European publishing is flooding the market with AI-generated books and boosting English-language bestsellers, while smaller-language works disappear, per @ec.europa.eu-commissioned report by the European Writers Council. europeanwriterscouncil.eu/2604_control...
How Amazon & Co control European authors, stories, and topics - EWC - European Writers Council
The malicious Power of Algorithms: How Amazon & Co control European authors. Online marketplaces for books are no neutral infrastructure.
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"Changes in consumer behavior – primarily, audiences increasingly relying on [Google] AI Overviews instead of visiting publisher-owned websites – was cited as the chief reason behind Bauer Media’s realignment of its publishing business. " digiday.com/media/bauer-...
Bauer Media Group slashes publishing headcount in company-wide restructure
Bauer Media Group's realignment of its business is estimated to have impacted up to 30% of publishing group headcount.
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Good afternoon from Global Progressive Mobilization in Barcelona, the Spanish PSOE’s globalised political convention (left-leaning CPAC). Sanchez, Lula up tomorrow #gpm2026
"We have surrendered our vision of the future to the marketing departments of huge techno-monopolists; and yet there is a separate story of the technological future being enacted by billions of people in their daily lives." – Mohsin Hamid on new @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement. Intriguing!
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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.@tteresaribera.ec.europa.eu has a message for critics of the EU: you may just be jealous of Europe's high quality of life. Aka don't be a hater. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/18/w...
EU EVP: People complaining about our regulations may just be jealous | CNN
EU Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera says she doesn’t think the bloc is too aggressive on regulation, and that those making fun of EU bureaucracy may be jealous of the continent’s high quality of...
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In a continent of GmbHs, SpAs and Sarls, why EU Inc? My backgrounder on the linguistic spat over what to call the EU's proposal to loosen corporate set-up rules, and what it says about a key market liberalization effort of a deregulatory-minded Commission. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Too American? Brussels’ embrace of US corporate jargon sparks language row
Ursula von der Leyen’s Davos cheerleading for U.S. corporate terms gets the side eye from lovers of Latin.
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On the eve of the February EU leaders summit, a corporate coalition purporting to represent 1,350 companies & groups signed off on a letter calling for the weakening of EU climate rules. The catch? Not all of them actually signed it. www.politico.eu/article/big-...
Big EU lobby groups exaggerated industry support for attack on carbon price
A letter to EU leaders was issued ‘on behalf of’ 1,300 signatories. Some firms deny they supported the demands.
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One of Apple's very few rival mobile app marketplaces, launched in hopes of seizing on the DMA, says that it will shut down in February due to uncertainty around Apple's EU fee structure. dig.watch/updates/eu-a...
EU alternative app store Setapp Mobile closes | Digital Watch Observatory
Subscription-based app marketplaces face a reality check as compliance costs reshape competition on iOS in Europe.
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Why IT consultancies – even European ones like Capgemini – might be "trojan horses for American solutions" hampering the EU's digital sovereignty efforts. www.journaldunet.com/cybersecurit...
Pourquoi les ESN sont accusées de saboter la souveraineté numérique
Les entreprises de services du numérique (ESN) sont accusées de privilégier les éditeurs extra-européens malgré une demande croissante de solutions souveraines.
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"“Google’s commitments are a good example of how the work of national authorities on consumer protection law complements the Commission’s enforcement of the DMA to achieve better results,” a Commission spokesperson said" indeed!
Alderik@alderik.eurosky.social · 8mo ago“The investigation, which accused the tech giant of using “misleading and aggressive” commercial practices to get users to link services like Maps and Search, thus violating Italian consumer protection rules, struck at conduct that is also covered by the [DMA].” www.politico.eu/article/goog...”
EU trade chief Šefčovič says Beijing will loosen the restrictions on chips that had raised alarm bells among automakers, following US-China truce. Mofcom warns though that the trigger of the crisis – the Dutch seizing of Nexperia – remains unresolved. www.politico.eu/article/chin...
China agrees to ship Nexperia chips to Europe, EU trade chief says
Beijing will grant exemptions to its licensing requirements provided that purchasers promise to use the chips only for civilian purposes, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said.
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Apple AirPods live translation is coming to Europe after all, after initially blaiming the DMA. The @ec.europa.eu response: “The aim of our digital [rules] is to preserve innovation...And this is exactly what we see today.” www.politico.eu/article/appl...
Apple is bringing AirPods live translation to Europe after all
After initially threatening to withhold live translation due to regulatory concerns, Apple commits to roll out the AI-driven feature next month
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A message from Brussels to Google: Would you break yourself up, please? The tech giant faces a deadline to explain how it’ll comply with an EU ruling that found it illegally maintained its grip on online ad infrastructure.
Yes, Brussels really wants Google to be broken up
The U.S. tech giant is on a collision course with EU trustbusters over its digital ad dominance.
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"Apple’s high-margin services business [...] has doubled in size over the past five years, making it a vital source of growth at a time when iPhone sales have become less dependable." www.ft.com/content/3687...
Apple tops $100bn in services revenue even as legal risks grow
Tech giant’s high-margin unit has doubled in size over the past five years
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2024 @nytimes.com publication, accompanying an opinion piece, titled „My Country Shows What Europe Has Become”, by Belgian essayist Anton Jäger. The two images are extracts from my M.A. graduation work on the visuality of (EU) political communication and were both taken in Brussel’s EU district.
Margrethe Vestager says she has no 'phantom pains' about her power as Commissioner: "[Power] comes with a very, very big responsibility. Because if power is a tool to solve problems, then you have to solve those problems. If you don't, you are not worthy of it" www.lederstof.dk/margrethe-ve...
Margrethe Vestager vidste, at magten kun var til låns: »Jeg har ingen fantomsmerter«
Selvom hun havde et ’skønt, interessant og privilegeret’ job som næstformand i EU-kommissionen, savner Margrethe Vestager hverken magten eller privilegierne efter afskeden med Bruxelles.
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"By you" –> Tomorrow's conference on European competiveness will take place behind closed doors. No press allowed, but plenty of lobbies on the programme (BusinessEurope, European Banking Federation, and more).
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 11mo agoA clean, competitive, fair economy powered by you – built for generations to come. Join President von der Leyen and Professor Draghi tomorrow at 09:45 (CET) as they mark one year of the report ↓ link.europa.eu/8WtPwR
.@ec.europa.eu: “This is a unilateral decision by Apple. The Commission has not been consulted and we are not able to understand the nature of Apple’s concerns.”
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 11mo agoApple introduced new AirPods on Tuesday, featuring real-time translation directly through the earbuds. But it doesn’t work for users in Europe.
🚨 BREAKING: The EU Commission's Teresa Ribera has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, the strongest condemnation yet to come out of Brussels. Read the story: ow.ly/4SJs50WRcuP
“It’s survival of the strongest – You think about how you were and how you are now, like you’re an animal running around to get food.” www.ft.com/content/6c74...
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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Mario Draghi, at Rencontres d'Aix, on the DMA: “One good thing that should not be changed is the DMA because that is actually the only thing we have to protect our industry in Europe, our small industry especially, from the big hypers scalers, the big US companies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlU...
Special session
YouTube video by Les Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence
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A year after @ec.europa.eu (with 🇺🇸) effectively blocked Adobe takeover, Figma files for IPO. "Proof that antitrust matters," per @dohamekki.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/f...
Figma files for IPO on NYSE, plans to 'take big swings' with acquisitions
Figma filed its IPO prospectus on Tuesday, as the design software vendor looks to raise money and awareness to take on Adobe.
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