Did IMCO Forget That Consumer Protection Is in Its DNA?

The IMCO draft opinion on the Digital Networks Act (DNA), reported by Euractiv and circulated after a Politico leak, takes the Commission’s already-imperfect proposal and systematically worsens it on net neutrality across three dimensions simultaneously. The central move — making the conciliation mechanism mandatory — does what the Commission explicitly declined to do: it builds a structural pathway for network fees directly into EU telecoms law. In parallel, a joint statement signed by almost 40...