Digital Markets Act

European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen is facing growing pressure to wrap up investigations into TikTok, Meta and X.

“The European Commission is attempting to handicap successful American businesses,” blasts top US lobbyist.

The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

The European Commission will enforce its digital rulebook without fear, said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

By delaying expected announcements on fining Apple and Meta, the bloc’s Digital Markets Act is being dragged into the global trade war.

It was a week when penguins, bonds, the new German coalition, Louisiana soybeans, fossil fuels, the EU’s Digital Markets Act, France’s creaking politics and American bourbon all became one news story. POLITICO explains what got us all yippy.

The bloc’s Digital Markets Act is about compliance, not fines, says Olivier Guersent.

The EU is set to fine Apple and Meta for rule breaches in the coming days.

Brussels sees America’s transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles’ heel.

The Commission’s first fines under its Digital Markets Act are expected this week.

Targeting Big Tech could be among the EU’s options to hit Washington where it hurts, Belgium’s foreign minister says.

U.S. tech giants must overhaul key products, the European Commission rules.

A series of decisions against Apple, Meta and Google could open up a new front in the EU-U.S. trade war.

Tech regulation could be the next point of contention between the new U.S. administration and the EU.

The European Commission pushes back on U.S. criticism of its Digital Markets Act that targets Big Tech.

Their meeting didn’t quite go as hoped, with U.S. politicians railing against EU “censorship regimes.”

The European Union’s top trade official brings a suitcase full of proposals to persuade President Donald Trump to call off his trade war threats.

Resist potential Trump pressure to soften rules that rein in U.S. tech giants, lawmakers tell Commission.

EU looks to ensure Apple devices connect smoothly with accessories and to curb how far it can block rivals’ software access.

EU targets Meta with antitrust penalty for pushing classified ads service.

The EU is under pressure to flex its new digital rules. One of its top targets is a tech tycoon lauded by the new U.S. president.

“I’m really scared by digital platforms in bad hands,” Věra Jourová tells POLITICO.

America is raising the prospect of breaking up Google just as EU considers ordering the company to split off part of its ads business.

New leadership in Dublin has put the EU’s privacy regulators on a collision course with Big Tech.