"By you" –> Tomorrow's conference on European competiveness will take place behind closed doors. No press allowed, but plenty of lobbies on the programme (BusinessEurope, European Banking Federation, and more).

[email protected]: “This is a unilateral decision by Apple. The Commission has not been consulted and we are not able to understand the nature of Apple’s concerns.”

🚨 BREAKING: The EU Commission's Teresa Ribera has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, the strongest condemnation yet to come out of Brussels. Read the story: ow.ly/4SJs50WRcuP

“It’s survival of the strongest – You think about how you were and how you are now, like you’re an animal running around to get food.” www.ft.com/content/6c74...

Mario Draghi, at Rencontres d'Aix, on the DMA: “One good thing that should not be changed is the DMA because that is actually the only thing we have to protect our industry in Europe, our small industry especially, from the big hypers scalers, the big US companies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlU...

A year after @ec.europa.eu (with 🇺🇸) effectively blocked Adobe takeover, Figma files for IPO. "Proof that antitrust matters," per @dohamekki.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/f...

"The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I'm still processing. It's like being built from a library's ashes." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Lawmakers/civil society groups raise alarm bell on DMA enforcement as @ec.europa.eu says everything – including tech regulation – on the table in U.S.-EU trade talks. www.politico.eu/article/grow...

#Google should lose its appeal of €4.124 billion Android abuse of dominance fine, per Advocate General in opinion. Full judgment yet to come.

@ec.europa.eu has published the full text of its DMA non-compliance decisions against Apple (including how it determined the €500m fine amount) ec.europa.eu/competition/...

Madrid 2036? London 2040? A TBD German games?🏅🇪🇺 @ec.europa.eu Sports Commissioner Glenn Micallef tells @politico.eu that he wants the Olympics back in Europe ASAP www.politico.eu/article/eu-o...

All of Spain and Portugal have just lost power. We're running coverage — dm or @ me or @aitorehm.bsky.social if you're affected

@ec.europa.eu has published its much anticipated annual Digital Markets Act report digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma/dm...

#Meta's reaction to @ec.europa.eu's DMA decision was "somewhat infantile," Teresa Ribera tells @elpais.com elpais.com/economia/202...

[email protected] has slapped Apple with a €500 million fine and Meta with a €200 million fine in it's first ever non-compliance decisions under the #DigitalMarketsAct www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

The EU should move to break up Google, says @dacemoglumit.bsky.social: "Europe has long recognised the need to strengthen its own tech sector and reduce its dependence on Silicon Valley. But this ambition cannot be realised unless monopolistic bottlenecks are addressed" www.ft.com/content/2b78...

An #CJEU hearing will be held on 15 May for #Meta's challenge to the @ec.europa.eu decision to designate Marketplace and Messenger as gatekeeper services under the #DMA, according to an update to an update to the court registry. eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L...

"There should be no doubt at all as to whether the agencies decide impartially and independently of their governments. We should also hold the Commission to this maxim." scidaproject.com/2025/04/14/t...

Quick reminder that the Commission has imposed a "presumption of non-disclosure" on their investigations into Big Tech. Meaning that they are not subject to the EU's freedom of information laws, and off limits to public access. And thus, secrecy turns into arbitrary exercise of power.

Don't expect a multi-billion dollar DMA fine against Apple or Meta this week. The rationale for the DMA is compliance, not punishment, Guersent said. pro.politico.eu/news/196876

"When the choice is I have is Amazon, Google or Microsoft, I'm not very comfortable." – TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné on EU dependency on US cloud providers www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/...

Google contends that “European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenue for Google,” citing tests of user behaviour. blog.google/around-the-g...

[email protected] had a call with Apple CEO Tim Cook last Wednesday to discuss the Digital Markets Act, per a read-out published today. ec.europa.eu/transparency...

@ec.europa.eu stands ready to “respond swiftly and decisively" to defend the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act should the Trump administration apply "unjustified" measures, per EC spox. pro.politico.eu/news/194568

"What we are not going to do is allow ourselves to be carried away by the populism of the other side and give a quick response to counterattack. We respect the rules of the game." says @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu in El Pais in response to Trump admin threats on DSA/DMA elpais.com/internaciona...