The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech How well the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web 🧵👇️ (1/10) 📖Read more:

Eurovision isn't influenced by politics? Tell that to Abba, which won in 1974 after French President George Pompidou died unexpectedly days before the contest, leading France's Dani ("La Vie à vingt-cinq ans") to pull out. Abba won with Waterloo no less.

Some interesting insights into the strangulation of the Palestinian economy from an event today in the EP hosted by @anamirandapaz.bsky.social,@oxfameu.bsky.social and Rima Hassan. Output of olive oil has dropped from ±38k tonnes to under 8k last year, largely due to settler violence /1

The 'Big Five' giants of the English-language book market - Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan - are strangling libraries by forcing extorionate pricing and licensing terms for e-books, warns Irish MEP Barry Andrews www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Amazon's grip on European publishing is flooding the market with AI-generated books and boosting English-language bestsellers, while smaller-language works disappear, per @ec.europa.eu-commissioned report by the European Writers Council. europeanwriterscouncil.eu/2604_control...

"Changes in consumer behavior – primarily, audiences increasingly relying on [Google] AI Overviews instead of visiting publisher-owned websites – was cited as the chief reason behind Bauer Media’s realignment of its publishing business. " digiday.com/media/bauer-...

Good afternoon from Global Progressive Mobilization in Barcelona, the Spanish PSOE’s globalised political convention (left-leaning CPAC). Sanchez, Lula up tomorrow #gpm2026

"We have surrendered our vision of the future to the marketing departments of huge techno-monopolists; and yet there is a separate story of the technological future being enacted by billions of people in their daily lives." – Mohsin Hamid on new @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement. Intriguing!

[email protected] has a message for critics of the EU: you may just be jealous of Europe's high quality of life. Aka don't be a hater. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/18/w...

In a continent of GmbHs, SpAs and Sarls, why EU Inc? My backgrounder on the linguistic spat over what to call the EU's proposal to loosen corporate set-up rules, and what it says about a key market liberalization effort of a deregulatory-minded Commission. www.politico.eu/article/brus...

On the eve of the February EU leaders summit, a corporate coalition purporting to represent 1,350 companies & groups signed off on a letter calling for the weakening of EU climate rules. The catch? Not all of them actually signed it. www.politico.eu/article/big-...

One of Apple's very few rival mobile app marketplaces, launched in hopes of seizing on the DMA, says that it will shut down in February due to uncertainty around Apple's EU fee structure. dig.watch/updates/eu-a...

Why IT consultancies – even European ones like Capgemini – might be "trojan horses for American solutions" hampering the EU's digital sovereignty efforts. www.journaldunet.com/cybersecurit...

Early Brussels response to Trump’s Greenland tariff threat ⬇️

"“Google’s commitments are a good example of how the work of national authorities on consumer protection law complements the Commission’s enforcement of the DMA to achieve better results,” a Commission spokesperson said" indeed!

EU trade chief Šefčovič says Beijing will loosen the restrictions on chips that had raised alarm bells among automakers, following US-China truce. Mofcom warns though that the trigger of the crisis – the Dutch seizing of Nexperia – remains unresolved. www.politico.eu/article/chin...

Apple AirPods live translation is coming to Europe after all, after initially blaiming the DMA. The @ec.europa.eu response: “The aim of our digital [rules] is to preserve innovation...And this is exactly what we see today.” www.politico.eu/article/appl...

A message from Brussels to Google: Would you break yourself up, please? The tech giant faces a deadline to explain how it’ll comply with an EU ruling that found it illegally maintained its grip on online ad infrastructure.

"Apple’s high-margin services business [...] has doubled in size over the past five years, making it a vital source of growth at a time when iPhone sales have become less dependable." www.ft.com/content/3687...

2024 @nytimes.com publication, accompanying an opinion piece, titled „My Country Shows What Europe Has Become”, by Belgian essayist Anton Jäger. The two images are extracts from my M.A. graduation work on the visuality of (EU) political communication and were both taken in Brussel’s EU district.

Margrethe Vestager says she has no 'phantom pains' about her power as Commissioner: "[Power] comes with a very, very big responsibility. Because if power is a tool to solve problems, then you have to solve those problems. If you don't, you are not worthy of it" www.lederstof.dk/margrethe-ve...

"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...