Letters dispatched from Brussels to Washington on the Digital Markets Act #DMA, from both EC and EP, pleading innocence against targeting American Big Tech. Difficult message to sell as things stand. Proof...pudding...eating...

The DMA doesn’t target large and powerful American companies just like speed limits don’t target fast cars…they just happen to be affected

Look who’s visiting Brussels!

BREAKING: The European Commission is set to clear the owner of Formula One’s €4.2 billion purchase of motorbike series MotoGP, as regulators ditched concerns that the deal would undermine competition, two sources with direct knowledge of the decision told The Capitol Forum.

Meta deeply unhappy about the #DMA fine today.

With no Commissionner here to defend these first DMA decisions against Apple and Meta. Virkkunen and Ribera are conveniently missing in action. Perfectly put by Raziye Akkoç:

Avez-vous remarqué qu'on entend plus l'ex-commissaire Thierry Breton que n'importe quel autre commissaire européen en fonction? Cela montre deux choses 1/ Emmanuel Macron , qui lui a préféré le palot (je suis gentil aujourd'hui bien qu'il pleuve) Stéphane Séjourné, est bien un DRH

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