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IAPP EU Data Protection Congress 2025: Wake-up call on ‘failure’ of antitrust enforcement

Cristina Caffarra at the IAPP EC Data Protection Congress 2025.
Photo: Jean Hurley

Economist and antitrust expert Cristina Caffarra outlines an urgent path forward to build European Digital Sovereignty.

In a scathing closing keynote, renowned economist Cristina Caffarra declared the era of European antitrust enforcement a failure, urging the continent to abandon its “obsession” with regulation in favor of aggressively building its own digital infrastructure.

​Dubbed the “High Priestess of Competition” by Politico, Caffarra, now leading the EuroStack Industry