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		<title>CEMES–FIDMA workshop: Towards European Digital Fairness and Sovereignty</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[4th December 2026 · Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society What does it mean to make digital fairness European? Fairness is now at the centre of EU digital regulation. The Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the AI Act, the GDPR and the renewed interest in Article 102 TFEU all [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>4th December 2026 · Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society</h3>
<p>What does it mean to make digital fairness European? Fairness is now at the centre of EU digital regulation. The Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the AI Act, the GDPR and the renewed interest in Article 102 TFEU all use the vocabulary of fairness, contestability, autonomy and accountability. Yet the meaning of fairness in Europe is old, layered and politically contested. It goes back to just price, moral economy, ordoliberalism, the social market economy and long-running debates about public authority and private power.<br />
This one-day research workshop, organised by FIDMA with funding from the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES), treats digital fairness as a question about how modern Europe has changed. It does not treat it as a narrow technology-law issue. Researchers from law, political science, media studies and European studies will ask:</p>
<ul>
<li>How did fairness move from moral economy and just price into today’s regulatory<br />
vocabulary?</li>
<li>How do EU digital and AI laws reshape ideas of autonomy, democracy and consumer<br />
citizenship?</li>
<li>Who gets to define fair AI, and how do European fairness norms travel globally?</li>
<li>What does digital sovereignty mean in practice, and who benefits from it?</li>
</ul>
<p>The day brings together researchers from across the Öresund region and wider Europe: Malmö, Lund, Copenhagen, CBS, Uppsala, KTH, Münster, Ilmenau, Humboldt, NOVA and the University of East London. It closes with a public roundtable with researchers, policymakers and enforcement authorities.</p>
<h2>Programme</h2>
<p>09:00–09:10 Registration and coffee<br />
09:10–09:15 Welcome address (speaker to be confirmed)</p>
<p><strong>09:15–10:30 Morning Panel 1 | Fairness in Digital and AI Markets</strong><br />
Chair: Annegrete Engel — Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Lund University</p>
<ul>
<li>09:15 – 09:30 Behrang Kianzad — Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Malmö University; Fabrizio Esposito — Associate Professor in Private Law, NOVA School of Law
<ul>
<li><em>Digital Fairness Defined as Autonomy and Sovereignty</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>09:30 – 09:45 Jan-Frederick Göhsl — Junior Professor, University of Münster; Juliane<br />
Mendelsohn — Junior Professor, Technische Universität Ilmenau</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Distinct and Applied Notions of EU Private Law Fairness — A Fair Bargain?</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>09:45 – 10:00 Dr. Miroslava Marinova — Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of East London
<ul>
<li><em>Algorithmic Personalised Pricing and Digital Fairness: Beyond Exploitative Abuse</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>10:00 – 10:30 Joint panel discussion; moderated by Annegrete Engel<br />
10:30–10:45 Fika / coffee break</p>
<p><strong>10:45–12:15 Morning Panel 2 | Autonomy, Sovereignty and AI Politics</strong><br />
Chair: Behrang Kianzad — Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University</p>
<ul>
<li>10:45–11:00 Johan Linåker, Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University
<ul>
<li><em>Empirical software engineering, open technologies, and digital sovereignty</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>11:00–11:15 Eduardo Gill Pedro — Associate Professor in EU Law / Senior Lecturer,<br />
Department of Law, Lund University</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Human Oversight in the AI Act: The Case of Employees of AI Systems</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>11:15–11:30 Katja de Vries, Associate Professor &amp;amp; Andreas Kotsios, Associate Professor — Uppsala University; André Holzapfel, Associate Professor — KTH Royal Institute of Technology
<ul>
<li><em>Beyond Idealized Policy and Legal Imaginaries: Fairness in AI Creation and Use. Empirical Lessons Learned from the Data4Sci Project</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>11:30–11.45 Kathrine Søs Jacobsen Cesko — Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
<ul>
<li><em>Danish Implementation and Enforcement of the DMA</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>11.45–12:15 Joint panel discussion; moderated by Behrang Kianzad<br />
12:15–13:30 Lunch</p>
<p><strong>13:30–15:00 Afternoon Panel | Sovereignty and Fairness in Digital and AI Markets</strong><br />
Chair: Fabrizio Esposito — Associate Professor, Nova School of Law, Lisbon</p>
<ul>
<li>13:30–13:45 Dechun Zhang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen &amp; Yuxi Huang, Doctoral Researcher, GRESEC, Université Grenoble Alpes
<ul>
<li>Who Gets to Define Fair AI? Corporate Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Fairness and Sovereignty in Europe, China, and the United States</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>13:45–14:00 Jess Haynie-Lavelle — Doctoral candidate, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University
<ul>
<li>The Politics of Ethical AI: Sensemaking, Digital Sovereignty and Citizen Participation in the European Union</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>14:15–14:30 Caterina Bresci — Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt University of Berlin
<ul>
<li>Fairness and Good Faith: Still a Binomial in Platform Law?</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>14:45–15:15 Joint panel discussion, moderated by Fabrizio Esposito<br />
15:15–15:30 Fika / coffee break<br />
15:30–16:30 Closing Roundtable</p>
<p><strong>Annegret Engel</strong> — Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Lund University; <strong>Eduardo Gill Pedro</strong> — Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Lund University; <strong>Juliane Mendelsohn</strong> — Junior Professor, Technische Universität Ilmenau; <strong>Jan-Frederick Göhsl</strong> — Junior Professor, University of Münster; Danish / Swedish political representative(s) — TBC; Swedish enforcement authority / AI Sweden representative — TBC</p>
<h2>Practical information</h2>
<p>Participation in the paper sessions is by invitation. The closing roundtable is open to the public.</p>
<p>The registration link is found here and please do register no later than 30th November: <a href="https://mau.se/en/calendar/cemesfidma-seminar-towards-european-digital-fairness-and-sovereignty/#accordion-645081" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://mau.se/en/calendar/cemesfidma-seminar-towards-european-digital-fairness-and-sovereignty/#accordion-645081</a></p>
<p>The workshop is co-funded by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES), University of Copenhagen, and hosted by the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University.</p>
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		<title>Victor Hugo Delfante Borborema</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Victor Hugo Delfante Borborema is an LL.M. candidate in European Economic Law at Lund University. His academic interests encompass EU competition law, intellectual property law, artificial intelligence, digital markets, and the intersection of law and technology. He serves as a research assistant to Behrang Kianzad, founding member of the Fairness in Digital Markets and AI [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Victor Hugo Delfante Borborema is an LL.M. candidate in European Economic Law at Lund University. His academic interests encompass EU competition law, intellectual property law, artificial intelligence, digital markets, and the intersection of law and technology.<br />
He serves as a research assistant to Behrang Kianzad, founding member of the Fairness in Digital Markets and AI (FIDMA) initiative, contributing to research on competition law, digital market regulation, and AI governance. His responsibilities include legal research, monitoring legislative and regulatory developments, and producing analytical content for the FIDMA blog.</p>
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		<title>From Risk Assessment to Safety by Design: What the EU KIDS Act  Means for Platform Accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A blog post by Victor Hugo Delfante Borborema On 17 September 2026, the European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, promising to make digital services safer for children through age restrictions, safer default settings and stronger obligations on platform design.[1] Its most visible measure would delay independent accounts on certain social-networking and video-sharing services until [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A blog post by Victor Hugo Delfante Borborema</p>
<p>On 17 September 2026, the European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, promising to make digital services safer for children through age restrictions, safer default settings and stronger obligations on platform design.[1] Its most visible measure would delay independent accounts on certain social-networking and video-sharing services until age 15. Yet the proposal is not simply an EU-wide social-media ban: the account restriction is linked to specified risk-generating functionalities, including contact with strangers, profiling-based recommendations and uninterrupted feeds.<br />
The proposal, still subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, raises a more consequential question. If the Digital Services Act (DSA) already requires platforms to protect minors, whyvlegislate again? The answer may lie in a change of regulatory technique: from askingvplatforms to assess risks and select mitigations towards prescribing particular design choices.<br />
Whether this improves protection without sacrificing children&#8217;s rights or entrenching established platforms deserves closer scrutiny.</p>
<h2>Fundamental Rights, Not Protection Alone</h2>
<p>Martin Husovec characterises the DSA as both a fairness regime and, for the largest services, a risk-management regime. His account highlights a central difficulty: when public authorities compel platforms to regulate online activity, decisions apparently taken by private intermediaries also engage constraints on public power.[2] For legally accessible content, he argues that risk-management powers cannot become an unrestricted licence for regulators to determine what speech is acceptable.<br />
That insight matters for child protection. Article 24 of the EU Charter makes children&#8217;s best interests a primary consideration, but Articles 7, 8 and 11 also protect privacy, personal data and freedom of expression and information.[3] Minors are not merely recipients of safety measures; they exercise rights online. As the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child explains, regulation must take account of their evolving capacities and opportunities for participation.[4]</p>
<h2>What the DSA Already Requires</h2>
<p>Article 28(1) DSA obliges online platforms accessible to minors, subject to its statutory scope and exemptions, to take appropriate and proportionate measures ensuring a high level of privacy, safety and security. Article 28(2) separately prohibits profiling-based advertising where providers know with reasonable certainty that a recipient is a minor. For very large online platforms and search engines, Article 34 requires assessments of systemic risks—including effects on children&#8217;s rights—and Article 35 requires reasonable, proportionate and effective mitigation.[5]<br />
This is already preventive regulation, not merely notice-and-takedown. Risk assessments must consider service design and algorithmic systems, and mitigation can include adaptations to interfaces and recommender systems. The Commission&#8217;s 2025 Article 28 Guidelines go further in recommending age assurance, privacy-preserving defaults and safeguards against manipulative design.[6] But guidance is not legislation: it sets an influential interpretative benchmark without converting every suggested measure into an individually binding rule.<br />
The DSA&#8217;s advantage is adaptability. Its weakness is that broad standards leave providers considerable discretion over what counts as sufficient protection, while regulators and researchers often lack equivalent access to the evidence needed to challenge those choices.</p>
<h2>What the Board&#8217;s 2026 Report Adds</h2>
<p>The European Board for Digital Services&#8217; July 2026 report supplies an unusually concrete picture of the risk landscape. Drawing on platform assessments and external submissions, it identifies risks from endless feeds, autoplay, engagement-optimised recommendations, unwanted contact, grooming and AI-enabled image manipulation. Crucially, several risks stem from how systems combine, rather than from any single illegal post.[7]<br />
But the report does not establish that every cited feature causes harm or that reported mitigations work. It expressly distinguishes systemic risks from realised harms and declines to designate observed practices as proven best practices. The evidence supports closer scrutiny of engagement-driven design; it does not, by itself, settle the proportionality of a particular age limit. Research also suggests that associations between social-media use and well-being can vary with developmental stage, cautioning against treating all adolescents as a uniform group.[8]</p>
<h2>Making Safety by Design a Legal Obligation</h2>
<p>The proposed KIDS Act would make some regulatory expectations substantially more specific. Article 6 would restrict autonomous accounts for under-15s on social-networking and video-sharing services possessing listed risky features, with limited guardian-controlled access contemplated for younger teenagers. A separate Article 7 exception concerns qualifying child-oriented video-sharing services for under-13s. These distinctions matter: the proposal targets particular services and functionalities, rather than every online interaction by children.[1]<br />
The design obligations are more revealing still. Article 9 would constrain features<br />
encouraging compulsive use, including content consumption without effective stopping points. Article 10 would require recommender systems to give primary weight to expressly stated preferences and disable recommendations based on implicit engagement signals by default. Articles 11 and 12 address protective default settings and unsolicited contact. Article 14 would require AI companions and chatbots to avoid designs likely to create emotional dependency, alongside testing and other safeguards.[1]<br />
Proposed Articles 27–29 set standards for privacy-preserving age assurance; Article 5 would require designated very large social-networking and video-sharing platforms to submit compliance plans for independent audit. The Commission presents this as shifting responsibility onto providers to demonstrate safety.[9] Legally, however, it is better understood as additional compliance and evidentiary duties, not a blanket reversal of every burden of proof in enforcement proceedings.<br />
This is therefore an evolution, not a replacement, of the DSA. The proposal expressly<br />
preserves existing DSA obligations while turning selected elements of earlier non-binding guidance into proposed hard law.</p>
<h2>Fairness Has a Market Dimension</h2>
<p>For digital markets, the underlying concern is an incentive mismatch. Personalisation and continuous engagement can generate commercial value even where their effects on vulnerable users are difficult to observe. Prescriptive safeguards could prevent platforms from treating those costs as external to product design. Yet uniform technical obligations are not costless: large incumbents may absorb verification, auditing and engineering expenses more easily than smaller rivals. The proposal&#8217;s absence of a general exemption for micro and small enterprises makes this especially relevant.[1]<br />
Fundamental-rights safeguards are equally important. Age verification could minimise disclosure by proving only an age threshold, but ineffective implementation could produce surveillance, exclusion or mistaken denial of access. The European Data Protection Board accordingly stresses necessity, proportionality and data minimisation.[10] By analogy, the Court&#8217;s judgment in Poland v Parliament and Council demonstrates that EU-mandated technological restrictions require safeguards against disproportionate interference with lawful expression; it does not decide the legality of the KIDS Act.[11]</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>The KIDS Act&#8217;s most important innovation may not be its age threshold but its attempt to make platform architecture itself a direct object of legislation. Husovec&#8217;s rights-based theory explains why this demands restraint; the DSA supplies the existing duties; and the Board&#8217;s report shows why leaving design decisions largely to providers is contested.<br />
More prescriptive rules may improve legal certainty and curb harmful incentives. They may also reduce flexibility, burden smaller providers and constrain legitimate participation unless supported by reliable evidence, privacy-preserving technology and effective appeals. The task for EU legislators is therefore not simply to demand safer platforms, but to determine which design rules are demonstrably necessary—and who bears the costs when those rules are mistaken.</p>
<h2>References</h2>
<p>[1] European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council: EU KIDS ACT — EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy COM(2026) 681 final (17 September 2026), explanatory memorandum and arts 5–14, 27–29. EUR-Lex.<br />
[2] Martin Husovec, Principles of the Digital Services Act (Oxford University Press 2024) 33–35, 333–335, 391–393. Oxford University Press.<br />
[3] Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [2012] OJ C326/391, arts 7, 8, 11, 24 and 52(1). EUR-Lex.<br />
[4] UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No 25 (2021) on Children&#8217;s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment UN Doc CRC/C/GC/25 (2 March 2021), paras 16–21, 50–55 and 84–86. United Nations.<br />
[5] Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Services Act) [2022] OJ L277/1, arts 28, 34 and 35. EUR-Lex.<br />
[6] European Commission, Guidelines on Measures to Ensure a High Level of Privacy, Safety and Security for Minors Online, Pursuant to Article 28(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 C/2025/6826, [2025] OJ C/2025/5519, paras 12, 17 and sections 5–8. EUR-Lex.<br />
[7] European Board for Digital Services and European Commission, Second Report on the Most Prominent and Recurrent Systemic Risks as well as Mitigation Measures (1 July 2026) 5–7, 43–46, 51–52. European Commission publication, 2 July 2026.<br />
[8] Amy Orben, Andrew K Przybylski, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Rogier A Kievit,<br />
&#8216;Windows of Developmental Sensitivity to Social Media&#8217; (2022) 13 Nature Communications 1649. DOI.<br />
[9] European Commission, &#8216;EU KIDS Act to Restrict Social Media Platforms&#8217; Access to Children in the EU&#8217; (Press release, 17 September 2026). European Commission.</p>
<p>[10] European Data Protection Board, Statement 1/2025 on Age Assurance (adopted 11 February 2025). EDPB.<br />
[11] Case C-401/19 Republic of Poland v European Parliament and Council of the European Union EU:C:2022:297, paras 83–86. EUR-Lex.</p>
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		<title>Miroslava Marinova</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis Sjövall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dr Miroslava Marinova is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East London and a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London. Her research focuses on EU and UK competition law, digital markets and the regulation of artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on algorithmic personalised pricing, consumer harm and fairness. Her current work examines [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr Miroslava Marinova is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East London and a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London. Her research focuses on EU and UK competition law, digital markets and the regulation of artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on algorithmic personalised pricing, consumer harm and fairness.<br />
Her current work examines how AI-driven pricing practices affect consumers, the role of market power and switching constraints in generating individualised harm, and the interaction between competition law, consumer protection and emerging AI governance frameworks. She is currently writing a monograph, Personalised Pricing in the AI Era: Outcome Harm, Competition Enforcement and AI Governance, for Edward Elgar.<br />
Miroslava has more than fifteen years’ experience in competition law, including previous roles at Ofgem and the Bulgarian Competition Authority. She has published on abuse of dominance, the as-efficient-competitor principle, excessive pricing, digital markets regulation and AI, and regularly contributes to academic and policy debates on competition enforcement in digital markets.</p>
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		<title>Call for Contributions – Symposium: Competition Enforcement Powers and Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[https://eulawlive.com/call-for-contributions-symposium-competition-enforcement-powers-and-privacy/ EU Law Live’s Competition Corner is organising a symposium on the intersection between competition enforcement powers and privacy. Investigatory powers conceived for filing cabinets are now exercised over mailboxes, laptops and phones, and what they capture is personal as much as professional. Where the line between the two regimes falls has become one of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>EU Law Live’s Competition Corner is organising a symposium on the intersection between competition enforcement powers and privacy. Investigatory powers conceived for filing cabinets are now exercised over mailboxes, laptops and phones, and what they capture is personal as much as professional. Where the line between the two regimes falls has become one of the liveliest debates in EU competition procedure, and the courts are drawing it case by case.</p>
<p>On 16 July 2026, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice handed down its much-awaited ruling in Imagens Médicas Integradas (C-258/23, C-259/23 and C-260/23). The Court held that Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter do not preclude a national competition authority from seizing professional emails containing personal data during an inspection of business premises without prior judicial authorisation, provided its powers are strictly framed by law and accompanied by full and effective ex post judicial review. In the same breath, the Court signalled that access to devices belonging personally to directors or employees calls for prior review by a court or an independent body.</p>
<p>The EU Courts and the EFTA Court have handed down other significant rulings on the same intersection recently: see e.g. Michelin v Commission (T-188/24); Red Bull and Others v Commission (T-306/23); Nuctech (Orders in T-284/24 R and C-720/24 P(R)); Toska ehf. and Lyf og heilsa hf. v ESA and SKEL fjárfestingafélag hf. v ESA (Joined Cases E-31/24 and E-32/24); Broadcom (T-280/26 R); Vivendi (T-1097/23) and Lagardère (T-1119/23). Further cases are pending: see e.g. Ronos (C-619/23); Red Bull and Others v Commission (C-865/25 P); Nuctech (T-284/24); and Meta Platforms v Commission (C-496/23 P and C-497/23 P); among others.</p>
<p>Against this background, they are looking for short, sharp and opinionated pieces. The themes we have in mind include:</p>
<ul>
<li>the balance between effective competition enforcement and the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection;</li>
<li>the treatment of devices used for both personal and business purposes, including whether device ownership remains an appropriate proxy to determine the level of protection;</li>
<li>the handling of privacy and data protection of information held in digital ecosystems;<br />
the scope and proportionality of requests for information and inspection decisions;<br />
the adequacy of ex ante judicial authorisation, ex post judicial review and other safeguards;</li>
<li>the balance between the effectiveness of EU/EEA law and higher national constitutional or procedural standards, and constitutional identity;<br />
legal professional privilege;</li>
<li>extraterritorial reach of EU/EEA investigations where compliance would breach foreign data protection or secrecy rules;</li>
<li>the EEA dimension and homogeneity between the EU and EFTA systems; and<br />
what all of this implies for the announced revision of Regulation 1/2003.</li>
</ul>
<p>The list is indicative rather than exhaustive. They equally welcome contributions from other areas of EU law that shed light on these questions, whether from the DSA and DMA, financial regulation, data protection law or the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. They are also happy to publish more than one piece on the same question where the perspectives differ.</p>
<p>EU Law Live’s full author guidelines and terms are sent on acceptance, and a summary is available under ‘Publish with us’ at eulawlive.com.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Publication</h2>
<p>The symposium opens in early November 2026 and pieces appear on a rolling basis, so there is some flexibility on the date for final texts.  Once the symposium closes, the contributions are compiled into a booklet, as with their earlier Competition Corner symposia, which can be found here.</p>
<h2>Key dates</h2>
<p>Deadline for proposals Tuesday 15 September 2026<br />
Notification of selection Monday 21 September 2026<br />
Deadline for final texts Wednesday 21 October 2026<br />
Symposium opens Early November 2026 (rolling publication)</p>
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<p>For more detailed information, please visit their call for papers here: <a href="https://eulawlive.com/call-for-contributions-symposium-competition-enforcement-powers-and-privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://eulawlive.com/call-for-contributions-symposium-competition-enforcement-powers-and-privacy/</a></p>
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		<title>Exploring the New Frontiers of EU Law: A Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog post is submitted by Dr. Arletta Gorecka Exploring the New Frontiers of EU Law is the latest publication of the Commission’s Legal Service. Its subject matter reflects the period: the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the digital and green transitions, and the more recent emphasis on economic security. The book is not [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>This blog post is submitted by Dr. Arletta Gorecka</strong></p>
<p>Exploring the New Frontiers of EU Law is the latest publication of the Commission’s Legal Service. Its subject matter reflects the period: the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the digital and green transitions, and the more recent emphasis on economic security.</p>
<p>The book is not neutral in the conventional academic sense. The contributors are largely describing legal developments in which the Commission itself has played a central role. The book is consequently most useful when read both as a substantive account of recent developments and as an example of how the EU’s legal establishment justifies those developments.</p>
<h2>The Expansion of EU Legal Competence</h2>
<p>The first part examines developments within the internal market, including the use<br />
of Article 114 TFEU in areas of industrial policy, the Digital Services Act, cybersecurity and crypto-asset regulation, alongside the changing organisation of the EU administration itself. The second part turns towards issues with a stronger external and security dimension, including foreign direct investment screening, sanctions, the European defence industry, drones, EU criminal law and the rule-of- law mechanism. The range of subjects illustrates how far EU law now extends beyond the traditional concerns of economic integration.<br />
Articles 114 and 122 TFEU are particularly important examples. Vaccine procurement, the Digital COVID Certificate and other emergency measures required legal bases and institutional arrangements that were not straightforwardly provided for in the Treaties. NextGenerationEU went further, involving common EU borrowing on a scale that represented a significant development in the Union’s economic governance.<br />
Treaty flexibility allows the Union to respond to circumstances that could not reasonably have been foreseen when the Treaties were agreed. At the same time, the more existing provisions are used to support new areas of Union action, the more difficult it becomes to distinguish interpretation from an effective expansion of competence. The practical difficulty of treaty reform makes the Commission’s approach understandable, but it does not remove the constitutional question. The book is strongest in demonstrating how this process has occurred; it is less convincing as a critical examination of its limits.</p>
<h2>Competition Law and Its New Frontiers</h2>
<p>Its central argument is that the increasing consideration of objectives such as sustainability, industrial policy and labour protection does not mean that EU competition law has abandoned its traditional foundations. Articles 101 and 102 TFEU remain the starting point, and the chapter places recent developments within the longer constitutional history of EU competition law rather than presenting them as a complete departure from established doctrine.</p>
<p>Three areas are especially significant. The first is labour markets. Competition law has traditionally been associated with product and service markets, but the treatment of collective bargaining and the position of self-employed and platform workers has increasingly brought labour markets within the field of competition policy. The development of the case law following Albany and Kunsten, together with the Commission’s 2022 guidelines on collective bargaining by solo self- employed and gig workers, reflects an attempt to distinguish legitimate collective bargaining from anticompetitive coordination. More recent enforcement against labour-market restrictions, including no-poach arrangements, suggests that this is becoming a genuine area of competition enforcement rather than a peripheral issue.<br />
The second is sustainability. Environmental considerations can now form part of competition-law analysis, particularly in the context of the European Green Deal. The important point, however, is that sustainability does not necessarily require competition law to abandon its existing framework.<br />
The third concerns privacy and data. In digital markets, personal data can be an important source of competitive advantage, meaning that data protection considerations increasingly intersect with questions of dominance and merger control.</p>
<h2>Continuity Rather Than Revolution</h2>
<p>None of these developments amounts to a complete reconstruction of EU competition law. The contribution instead demonstrates how established Treaty principles can be applied to economic relationships that were largely absent from the traditional conception of competition policy. The significance lies in the accumulation of these developments: labour markets, sustainability and data protection each bring competition law into closer contact with other areas of EU regulation and policy.<br />
This is also where the chapter’s emphasis on continuity is important. The recent expansion of competition law into new areas does not necessarily undermine its constitutional foundations. The principles of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU remain intact, alongside the foundational case law of the Court of Justice.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>The book is therefore a valuable reference point. Its principal value is not that it provides the final word on these developments, but that it records, unusually clearly, how the institution itself understands the legal changes it has helped to create.<br />
That limitation does not make the book unimportant. On the contrary, its institutional perspective is one of its most useful features. It provides a detailed account of how the Commission understands the development of EU law during a period in which the Union has assumed responsibilities extending well beyond its traditional internal-market role. The competition law discussion is particularly effective in showing how a mature area of EU law is adapting to labour markets, sustainability and digitalisation without abandoning its Treaty foundations.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis Sjövall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Towards European Digital Fairness and Sovereignty &#8211; From Just Price to AI Governance in Modern Europe A One-Day CEMES-FIDMA Research Network Workshop on the Legal, Political and Intellectual Transformations of Market &#160; Brief overview: Activity: Half-day interdisciplinary European research network workshop with researchers from Malmö University, Copenhagen University and FIDMA Network. Date: 4th December 2026, [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Towards European Digital Fairness and Sovereignty &#8211; From Just Price to AI Governance in Modern Europe</h1>
<h2>A One-Day CEMES-FIDMA Research Network Workshop on the Legal, Political and Intellectual Transformations of Market</h2>
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<h3><strong>Brief overview:</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Activity: Half-day interdisciplinary European research network workshop with researchers from Malmö University, Copenhagen University and FIDMA Network.</li>
<li>Date: 4th December 2026, 9.00-15.00</li>
<li>Venue: Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society</li>
<li>To be a part of this exciting event please send an abstract to behrang.kianzad@mau.se no later than 30th September.</li>
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<h3><strong style="color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">Summary</strong></h3>
<p>What does it mean to make digital fairness European? This halfday FIDMA-CEMES research workshop investigates how ideas of digital sovereignty, digital fairness, market order, consumer autonomy and democratic legitimacy have travelled through modern European political, legal and intellectual history and reappear today in EU digital regulation, AI governance and platform markets.<br />
By bringing together researchers from law, history, political economy, philosophy, media studies and European studies, we hope this workshop will reposition digital sovereignty as a problem of modern European transformation rather than as a narrow technology-law issue.<br />
This event is planned as a concentrated half-day research workshop hosted at Malmö University divided on a morning and an afternoon session with lunch break. Cost of travel and lodging will be provided for invited researchers.</p>
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<h3><strong>Background</strong></h3>
<p>Fairness has returned to the centre of European public life. The Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the AI Act, GDPR and the renewed interest in Article 102 TFEU all mobilise vocabularies of fairness, contestability, transparency, autonomy, dependency and institutional accountability. Yet the meaning of fairness in Europe remains historically layered and politically contested. It cannot be understood only as a compliance term in current digital regulation. It belongs to a longer European story about just price, market order, social conflict, democratic legitimacy, ordoliberalism, consumer citizenship, welfare institutions and the changing relationship between public authority and private power.<br />
This workshop therefore reframes digital fairness as a problem in modern European<br />
studies. It asks how Europe&#8217;s intellectual, legal and political traditions have shaped the concept of fair market order, and how these traditions are now being reworked under conditions of platformisation, data extraction and AI-mediated decision-making. The central hypothesis is that contemporary EU digital regulation should be read not only as technical economic regulation, but as a new phase in Europe&#8217;s attempt to govern concentrated<br />
private power through public norms of legitimacy.<br />
This approach creates a stronger bridge between European studies and current digital market research. It links the history of European political economy, legal philosophy and market regulation to urgent contemporary questions: Who defines fairness in digital markets? How do European institutions transform moral and political<br />
ideals into administrative rules? How do ideas of autonomy and citizenship survive when markets are organised through data, platform dependency and algorithmic infrastructures? And how does Europe&#8217;s regulatory self-understanding travel globally &#8211; through imitation, resistance, trade, standard-setting and geopolitical contestation?</p>
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<h3><strong>Research questions</strong></h3>
<p>This workshop will connect scholars working on European legal history, competition and market regulation, political theory, philosophy, digital media, AI governance and global Europe.</p>
<ol>
<li>How do EU digital market and AI laws reshape European ideas of sovereignty, autonomy, democracy, consumer citizenship and institutional legitimacy?</li>
<li>How do European fairness norms travel globally through regulation, standard-setting, corporate compliance and contestation by other regions?</li>
<li>Which interdisciplinary methods can make the study of digital fairness legible across history, law, politics, philosophy and media studies?</li>
<li>What is the interaction between digital sovereignty and digital fairness?</li>
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<h3><strong>Programme</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Welcome address by CEMES &amp; FIDMA</li>
<li>Morning Panel: Digital fairness, digital sovereignty and the European regulatory state &#8211; DMA, DSA, AI Act, Data Act and GDPR as contemporary market-ordering projects and their interaction with consumer protection and consumer sovereignty</li>
<li>Afternoon Panel: How to study digital sovereignty and digital fairness across law, history, philosophy, politics and media studies in the interface of law and policy</li>
<li>Closing Roundtable</li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>To be a part of this exciting event please send an abstract to behrang.kianzad@mau.se no later than 15th September.</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Application of EU Competition Law in the Digital Economy Challenges to the EU Legal Method?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Application of EU Competition Law in the Digital Economy Challenges to the EU Legal Method? Presented by Prof. Jörgen Hettne at the Second Annual Conference on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Imaginaries of Digital Fairness Access presentation here]]></description>
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<h3>Presented by Prof. Jörgen Hettne at the Second Annual Conference on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Imaginaries of Digital Fairness</h3>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Judicial Ethics and the Rule of Law: ECtHR Case Law and Contemporary European Challenges Presented by Prof. Dr. Mateja Đurović at the Second Annual Conference on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Imaginaries of Digital Fairness Access presentation here]]></description>
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<h3>Presented by Prof. Dr. Mateja Đurović at the Second Annual Conference on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Imaginaries of Digital Fairness</h3>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Next Frontier for Private Law: Rules and Legal Fictions for an AI-Human Hybrid Society Presented by Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell at the Second Annual Conference on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Imaginaries of Digital Fairness Access presentation here]]></description>
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<h3>Presented by Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell at the Second Annual Conference on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Imaginaries of Digital Fairness</h3>
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