Governments around the world are considering ways of regulating platform companies and platform power. Advanced examples of such regulations are the EU’s recent proposals to introduce regulations to govern the single market for digital services (Digital Services Act) and to ensure contestable and fair markets in the digital sector more broadly (Digital Markets Act). These proposals present solutions while also raising important questions: what regulatory problems are these proposals trying to solve? How are they going to affect Google and other global digital corporations?

Alexandre de Streel joined the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations to discuss these EU proposals, building on his research in this space.