What can and what should the EU/Europe do?

What can and what should the EU/Europe do? How do they respond to these events/ideas?

https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-google-bing-spam-ads-advertising-market-eu-commission-margrethe-vestager-antitrust/

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This article points out the weakening of the EU team that has been working on previous cases against the tech giants

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ramps-up-big-tech-clampdown-without-three-top-antitrust-investigators/

Vestager on how to start thinking about the “Metaverse”
https://www.politico.eu/article/metaverse-new-competition-challenges-margrethe-vestager/ (Links to an external site.)
The chances of further enlargement of the EU – The Balkans
In order to tie things a bit to our discussion of enlargement policies on Tuesday, here are some recent news about the possibility of that happening soon.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-enlargement-balkans/ (Links to an external site.)

Here is an interesting piece on the opinions and stance of the Commissioner in charge of enlargement policies, a man from a country that often opposes further enlargement.

https://www.politico.eu/article/oliver-varhelyi-eu-commissioner-enlargement-western-balkans-serbia-human-rights-democracy-rule-of-law/ (Links to an external site.)

And finally, an opinion piece by a number of experts on the topic. Make a note of who Catherine Ashton and Misha Glenny are when reading this.

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-union-membership-western-balkans-serbia-bosnia-montenegro-kosovo-albania-north-macedonia/

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-western-balkans-rule-of-law-european-commission-court-of-auditors/

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