Europe’s Digital Single Market was presented as a route to innovation, growth and easier cross-border access.
But for publishers, creators and smaller European businesses, it also raises a harder question: who would benefit most from the new digital rules?
Digital policy should not simply make the internet bigger. It should make it fairer.
At a moment when Brussels was trying to open up Europe’s online economy, concern was growing that the biggest global platforms would be best placed to profit from reform. The issue is not whether Europe needs a stronger digital market but whether that market would be built on fair terms — with competition, copyright, taxation and accountability applying as firmly online as they do elsewhere.
The warning is clear: digital policy should not simply make the internet bigger. It should make it fairer.
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