The 1 Self-Inflicted Wound That Killed EU’s Future

About this episode

Jimmy Sexton discusses how the EU has lost its relevance in the global tech race due to self-inflicted regulatory wounds.

Is Europe finished? IMI contributor and global tax expert Jimmy Sexton argues the EU has regulated itself out of relevance and lost the global tech race to the US and China for one specific, terminal reason. We unpack his case, including the moment Europe's own cybersecurity chief admitted "We've lost the whole cloud; we have lost the internet." Read the full analysis here.

People in this episode

Host: Christian Henrik Nesheim

Guest: Jimmy Sexton

Topics covered

• EU relevance
• global tech race
• cybersecurity
• cloud computing
• regulation impact

Keywords

• EU
• global tech race
• cybersecurity
• cloud
• regulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EU, US, China

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