On the occasion of the European Tech Summit, more than 30 CEOs from leading European tech companies have come together to issue a joint Call for Action, urging the EU to simplify and harmonise digital regulation across the continent.
Titled “One Market. One Rulebook. One Future.”, the call outlines five urgent priorities:
🔹 Simplification: Cut the red tape, empower growth
🔹 Enforcement: End the patchwork, make rules fit like a puzzle
🔹 Winning with AI: Compete globally, not just comply locally
🔹 Data Policy: Power innovation, respect privacy and security
🔹 Digital Fairness: Enforce the rules, don’t rewrite them
The signatories, including the CEOs of Spotify, Stripe, Zalando, Booking.com, Bolt, Vinted, and many more, are urging EU policymakers to develop an EU tech strategy that empowers Europe’s own tech champions, with no threshold on ambition, only on bureaucracy.
Antoine Jouteau, CEO of Leboncoin and President of the European Tech Alliance, said:
“European innovators are ready to lead, but EU rules must empower, not hold them back. It’s time to turn ambition into action.”
At the European Tech Summit, the Director-General for irector General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology(DG CNECT), Roberto Viola, stressed the need to create the right conditions for European companies to scale:
“These are the crown jewels of European tech, the greatest innovators in our digital economy, and we should thank your association for bringing them together. I could sign this manifesto myself, as we are very much aligned in scope and in sentiment. Now is the right moment. Time is running quickly and we need to keep working together!”
The message from European tech leaders is clear: EU institutions must support homegrown innovation, cut through regulatory noise, and turn Europe into a competitive and fair place for digital growth.
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About the European Tech Alliance
EUTA represents leading European tech companies that provide innovative products and services to more than one billion users. Our 33 EUTA member companies from 15 European countries are popular and have earned the trust of consumers. As companies born and bred in Europe, for whom the EU is a crucial market, we have a deep commitment to European citizens and values.
With the right conditions, our companies can strengthen Europe’s resilience and technological autonomy, protect and empower users online, and promote Europe’s values of transparency, rule of law and innovation to the rest of the world.
The EUTA calls for boosting Europe’s tech competitiveness by having an ambitious EU tech strategy to overcome growth obstacles, making a political commitment to clear, targeted and risk-based rules, and enforcing rules consistently to match the globalised market we are in.
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