Digital Omnibus: Europe’s big regulatory clean-up, or a quiet rollback?
12 January 2026 Digitalization European Politics Pedro Pardo Amaral Gomes 6 min
In Brussels, on 19 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled the so-called “Digital Omnibus”, a package intended to simplify the EU’s digital regulatory framework, aimed at reducing compliance burdens, harmonising rules across Member States and strengthening Europe’s competitiveness in the digital economy; however, involving EU institutions, industry, and academia, the initiative has sparked significant controversy, as critics warn that regulatory streamlining may dilute data-protection safeguards and weaken oversight of artificial intelligence, potentially favouring large technology firms, with the ultimate impact depending on how the rules are negotiated and implemented.
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