How to ensure consumers get a fair share of the benefits of the digital economy?

This speech was delivered at the occasion of the conference "EU Antitrust: Hot Topics and Next Steps" organized by the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague on 24 January. This contribution provides the European consumers' perspective on the role of EU competition law and regulation in digital markets arguing that the EU normative goals embedded in the EU Treaties can provide a prism to assess emerging practices in digital markets that harm consumers beyond price outputs by restricting choice and limiting innovation. It also argues that regulation should complement competition law enforcement by targeting practices by digital companies in the position of gatekeepers as proposed in the upcoming Digital Markets Act (DMA).