ECIPE says DMA enforcement is redesigning markets, not restoring competition

ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya say DMA enforcement now reshapes product design rather than remedying anticompetitive conduct, pointing to a Google Maps case where compliance changes raised map search queries by over 20 per cent, benefiting Google itself.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted ECIPE insight, 8 April 2026

What the source does not establish. Does not show the Commission will change its approach; the reading of DMA effects is ECIPE's own.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Opinion on EU-wide DMA enforcement; moves no question, records ECIPE's own reading.. European Sovereignty Index

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