The Open Markets Institute, Lobby Control, SOMO, and the Balanced Economy Project Will Convene Political Leaders and Policy Experts to Discuss the Next Phase in Cross-Border Fight to Protect Our Democracies from Dangerous Concentrations of Power and Control

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, MEP France

Paul Tang, MEP The Netherlands

Christy Hoffman, UNI Global Union Secretary General

Max Schrems, Founder of NOYB - European Center for Digital Rights

Tommaso Valletti, Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School

Rana Foroohar, Associate Editor, Financial Times

Christopher Gopal, Global Supply Chain Management Center at the University of Southern California (USC)

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Western democracies are waking to the political and economic perils posed by extreme concentration of corporate power and industrial capacity. The European Union has passed vital new legislation to tackle big tech, and the United States has named a new generation of law enforcers. And both Europe and the United States are taking dramatic steps to rebuild production systems.

But much more remains to be done. The abuse of power by dominant companies continue to disrupt democratic debate, enforce dangerous dependencies on authoritarian states, weaken workers’ rights, block real innovation, and drive up prices for everything from fuel to food to medicines to housing.

Please join us for a discussion of how the European Commission can wield its power most effectively to protect Europe’s citizens and nations from these threats. A collaboration between the Open Markets Institute, Lobby Control of Germany, SOMO of the Netherlands, and the Balanced Economy Project, a new Europe-focused anti-monopoly group, the conference will mark a new phase in cross-border efforts to master the crisis of monopoly.

With panel discussions on:

Protecting our democracies from big tech platform monopolies.Protecting workers, professionals and small and medium businesses from concentrated power.Ensuring industrial security in an open and international world. Organizing a European movement to protect democracy and innovation.

Additional featured speakers include:

Cristina Cafarra, Partner, Head of Keystone EuropeJohnny Ryan, Senior Fellow, Irish Council for Civil LibertiesLiza Lovdahl-Gormsen, Director of the Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative LawAlan Riley, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council Global Energy CenterSéverine Picard, Founder, Progressive PoliciesProf. Thomas Höppner, Professor of law at Technical University WildauCori Crider, Co-founder, FoxgloveCrispin Hunt, Songwriter/Producer/AdvocateAgustín Reyna, Senior Legal Officer and Digital Team Leader, BEUCSebastiano Toffaletti, Secretary General (CEO) at European DIGITAL SME AllianceLexie Kirkconnell-Kawana, Head of Regulation, IMPRESS RSVP NOW [[link removed]] Tweet [link removed] Forward [link removed]

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