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CCIA-backed study says DMA drained European startup funding, not a Kill Zone

A CCIA Research Center study of 2,276 European venture-backed firms found no rise in EU IPOs since the Digital Markets Act and a 37 percent fall in venture funding from 2022 to 2024, leading chief economist Trevor Wagener to call the "Kill Zone" rationale a myth.

Reported Opinion AI-drafted CCIA Europe press release, 18 March 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish that the DMA caused the funding fall; it is CCIA's own correlation-based study.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. law: industry-funded study argues DMA enforcement dried up EU startup funding. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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