Commission President von der Leyen identified ‘creating a Europe fit for the digital age’ as one of the headline ambitions for her Commission. In her mission letter to Commissioner Vestager, she highlighted the need for the need to strengthen the EU’s ‘technological leadership and strategic autonomy.’ In this context, the issues concern the taxation of digital services, the ethical handling of artificial intelligence, ensuring fair competition, protecting privacy and guaranteeing security. This pair of workshops would draw together scholars who are experts on the external impact of the EU’s regulations with scholars who have specialized in the digital economy. The papers would compare US and EU debates and approaches to these challenges, thus they would pay attention to both the politics behind action/inaction and the regulatory outcomes. In addition, the papers would explore how the US and EU’s regulatory choices interact to highlight gaps and conflicts.
The first workshop took place at Georgia Tech’s campus in Metz, France on 9-10 September 2022.
Associated papers were presented on the “Governing the Digital Economy” panel at the European Union Studies Association Conference in Pittsburgh on 5 May 2023.
The second Workshop was held at Georgia Tech, 15-16 September 2023.
The papers were published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration (46/7) in October 2024. It included these articles by CETS affiliates:
Young, A.R. (2024), “Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation“
Young, A.R. (2024), “Triumph in taxing times? Linked transatlantic two-level games and the taxation of the digital economy“
Birchfield, V.L. (2024), “From roadmap to regulation: will there be a transatlantic approach to governing artificial intelligence?“
