'Future Politics' explore a remarkable shift in politics. In the twentieth century it was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems—and on what terms?

Silicon Valley used opaque lobbying to weaken crucial new regulations. Firms like Google and Meta must be held to account.

Andrea Renda, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Advisor to the European Parliament shares his thoughts on what it takes to create effective digital policies, why the AI Act only goes half-way, and what else needs to be done. He also touches upon the geopolitical battle on data, and digital policies in China, the EU and the US.