commissioner nicolas schmit, a real pleasure having you on the show. let's start with this. sector is already large. your own estimates that in 2020 gig economy in the eu generated something like $14 billion, that was before the pandemic. so i am wondering, why has it taken so long to clarify when someone is employed and when they are not? this is a very fast revolution and nobody really understood what was happening. so this was driven by technology. this was driven by new companies, new business models and now the time has come when we have to adjust and we have to really take into account the different aspects including the economic aspects, the social aspects, the competition aspects. and give these new business models their right place in our old—world economy. do you think their digital platforms have taken advantage of the law, which, if we we are frank, can lead to several interpretations? there was not really a law for digital platforms. it was just the, well, i think digital platform creators were smart enough to find some loopholes and try to build a business mode

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