Stacking the Deck: Europe’s Approach to Digital Standards

The EU has long relied on technical standardization as part of its strategy to regulate the circulation of goods and services in its Single Market. However, some of the latest EU laws on digital matters, such as those governing artificial intelligence and products with digital elements, require standardization to address matters that go beyond their usual remit of technical aspects of the regulated objects. In this article, I show how this shift leads the EU to both push for changes in habitual