- Date
- September 2019
- Author
- Ursula Pachl & Pamela Valenti
- Program
- Open Society European Policy Institute
The digital revolution is radically changing every aspect of human life in the 21st century and it’s essential that regulators address the challenges this transformation brings. The new European Commission should look beyond digital single market issues, and focus on creating new rights-based policies and regulations based on freedom, democracy, equality, and rule of law to ensure that existing offline rights are protected online.
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