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Agustín Reyna, Director General of BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation
The European Consumer Organisation is among the most impactful stakeholders in the the area of EU competition policy. It was a pleasure to invite the Director General of BEUC Agustin Reyna for a detailed conversation on the main problems faced by (and solutions available for) the European Union competition policy in digital markets. We started with a conundrum, which keeps perplexing many: how to identify, articulate and then represent the interests of European consumers if both the consumers and their interests are so polysemic, diverse and often irreconcilable. We also looked at the main activities of BEUC – as we all know, they support many high-profile competition investigations and their targeted juristic interventions have helped to shape inter alia the DMA. We looked also at the broader set of issues. Agustin has suggested his views on what Europe is doing right and wrong, and what it should be doing better to improve its technological fitness.

In the previous episode (No. 117, published last Tuesday) we had a panel on alternative horizontal search engine market hosting Aurélien Mähl (DuckDuckGo), Cori Crider (Open Markets Institute) and Alissa Cooper (Knight-Georgetown Institute). The conversation is available here:    • Is Competition in Horizontal Search Market...  

In the next episode (No. 119, to be published next Tuesday) we will release an interview with Timothy Cowen on the history of competition law and its current application in the area of digital markets and online advertising, with a focus on protecting the interests of publishers.

The Digital Markets Research Hub is an independent academic initiative aiming at scrutinising the functioning of competition/regulation in digital markets. We host one-to-one interviews with leading policymakers, regulators and practitioners. We also organise online mini-workshops inviting high-profile experts and academics in various fields of digital competition law & policy to discuss the most vibrant issues of the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets. While having our clear normative stand on the matters discussed within the hub, we value different views and invite relevant stakeholders and thinkers representing the whole spectrum of reasonable positions on how to regulate competition in digital markets. All our materials are available at YouTube channel, which you are very welcome to subscribe to. This interview is organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk, School of Law, University of Exeter.