Are digital innovation regulations too strict?

The German Retail Federation (HDE) has called upon the new German government to push for innovation-friendly, pragmatic digital regulation in Brussels, as opposed to what it sees as an opaque bureaucratic web of regulations that is currently hampering technological development.

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/6-7.

In particular the EU’s AI Act is a barrier to the widespread use of AI in the European retail sector, while in the US it is already common practice to operate relying on digital business models. //