The first industry-led search for an EU platform model
"In Europe we have purpose"
M. Vestager, Commission Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, 2019.
Introduction & context
In 2020 four European tech companies began searching for a platform vision which reconciles the potential and opportunities provided by this new business model with the European values that underpin our societies.
Due to escalating COVID restrictions and a busy agenda of key stakeholders, we are extending the consultation and postponing the in-person launch event to a later date, to be announced
Preamble We, leading technology platforms operating in the EU,Reaffirming the EU’s values, principles and traditions of social dialogue that1. built the European social model and social market economy and2. fostered
Given the responses that we have received over the summer, the project participants have decided to extend both the deadline and the scope of the consultation. The new deadline is