At a time when media plurality and professional journalism face sustained economic and technological pressure, including intense competition from dominant platforms that capture most digital advertising growth and increasingly substitute publisher content with AI-generated answers, the Digital Omnibus proposal reveals a striking inconsistency at the heart of EU digital policy. It fails to create a framework that genuinely supports the sustainability of European publishers.

The European Publishers Council notes Google’s announcement of proposed behavioural remedies in response to the European Commission’s finding that Google abused its dominant position across the Adtech supply chain. Google’s decision falls well short of what is required to resolve its entrenched conflicts of interest that have harmed and continue to harm publishers, advertisers, and consumers for more than a decade. Behavioural adjustments have been tested repeatedly over man

The European Publishers Council (EPC) today welcomed the Commission’s finding that Google’s practices in their ad tech are illegal. The...

A landmark U.S. court ruling against Google that could reshape the digital advertising economy not just in the USA but in Europe too....

The European Commission’s decision to withdraw the long-delayed ePrivacy Regulation, announced today in its new Work Programme.

Executive Director of the European Publishers Council, Angela Mills Wade, said: “We welcome the significant progress made by the European...