Great work by @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social highlighting the #google situation as @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu has carried out with her #adtech decision.

Yesterday, we went to the EU-Commission’s headquarter in Brussels to protest for a Google break-up. Commissioner Ribera did the right thing with her adtech-decision. Now, she has to stay firm & resist pressure from inside the Commission & from the other side of the Atlantic. Time to break up Google!

The UK’s competition watchdog is rebranding itself as “pro-growth.” But behind the headlines, a deeper shift is underway. 🔗 Read the latest Counterbalance analysis: https://substack.pulse.ly/n2h5dxevho #Antimonopoly #RegulationWatch#BEP #CivilSociety

The UK’s competition watchdog is rebranding itself as “pro-growth.” But behind the headlines, a deeper shift is underway. 🔗 Read the latest Counterbalance analysis: https://substack.pulse.ly/zjysz6zebg #Antimonopoly #RegulationWatch#BEP #CivilSociety

A Happy 90th to the world's favourite boardgame. #Monopoly taught us that if someone has all the money and all the properties, no one else can even play. Centralised power is good for the winners, a nightmare for everyone else! https://bbc.pulse.ly/fwmgkg7dtn

This week’s Counterbalance lays out why structural remedies—not slap-on-the-wrist fines—are the only way forward. 📬 Read, share, and subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/q10r8abwql #Counterbalance #Adtech #MonopolyPower #DigitalDemocracy #EUCompetition

This week’s Counterbalance lays out why structural remedies—not slap-on-the-wrist fines—are the only way forward. 📬 Read, share, and subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/0m58zjmjdc #Counterbalance #Adtech #MonopolyPower #DigitalDemocracy #EUCompetition

Check out this week's Counterbalance for insights on the EU vs. Google's Adtech. 🔗 Read, share, and subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/woxmzscknf #Google #BalancedEconomy #DigitalDemocracy

470 organisations including the Balanced Economy Project have spoken with one voice. Their message to President von der Leyen and the EU: This Commission’s deregulation campaign threatens public interest. We denounce it #EuropeanCommission #Antitrust, https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/m5lwl9ntkq

470 organisations including the Balanced Economy Project have spoken with one voice. Their message to President von der Leyen and the EU: This Commission’s deregulation campaign threatens public interest. We denounce it #EuropeanCommission #Antitrust, https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/fsma9vveho

BEP has called for the European Commission to revitalise its assessment of mergers in a submission to a consultation on the revision of the EU Merger Guidelines. #EuropeanCommission #BalancedEconomy, #Antitrust, https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/r5alvg54ak

Europe blinked. Big Tech wins a pause. The EU’s landmark antitrust case against #Google’s #adtech monopoly is delayed 📖 Read our full take: thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/europe-bli... ✍️ Get more stories like this — subscribe to our Substack #BalancedEconomy #MonopolyPower #DigitalJustice

The #EU just delayed a landmark case against #Google — a setback for fair markets, innovation, and democracy. When regulators flinch, monopolies tighten their grip. Read and sign up to our weekly Counterbalance Substack thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/europe-bli... #BalancedEconomy

The reports that the EU is holding off action against #Google’s illegal AdTech monopoly take Europe’s democratic deficit to a new level. Doing nothing hands #BigTech & the US state dangerous power, undermining Europe’s own competition laws. #DigitalSovereignty #BreakUpBigTech #Antitrust #EU

Industrial economics got us into this mess with big firms, big pain. Accounting & Financial Analysis on sharper lens, real-time data, and fewer guessing games. Want smarter competition tools? Start here. 👇 www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/civil...

Antitrust now marks a core dividing line within the Democratic Party. On one side are the “abundantists”; on the other, the left populists who champion curtailing monopolies. Lina Khan speaks to @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Our latest: The Great (Deregulatory) Escape by Donald Trump www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/civil... #competition #Trump

🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣 We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.

Europe has fined Apple and Meta in a potentially watershed moment in the fight against monopoly power. Read our story below: www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/fcxan...

BREAKING: Europe has fined Apple and Meta a combined value of almost $800 million. Read our story at the Balanced Economy Project here: www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/fcxan...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. Last week, we brought together CSOs to confront this reality and strategise on how to fight back. Lessons: 🌍Monopolies are global and so should be our solutions 🤝We have an opportunity to build bold new alliances Read more ⬇️

Teresa Ribera came to the defence of the #DMA during a fireside chat at The Atlantic Council earlier today. www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/fcxan...

Follow @scottchipolina.bsky.social, our lead writer on all things finance and author of our weekly Counterbalance newsletter. This week’s edition is available below: thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/the-state-...

If you haven’t already, please follow @balancedeconomy.bsky.social for research and insight into monopolies and excessive corporate power. #trade #monopolies #power

Teresa Ribera speaking today, when asked about the head of the FTC saying “I definitely don’t want the Europeans levying taxes on US firms.” “I’m sure that when the US takes a decision to enforce US regulations or tax, they do not pay attention to the origin of the company they are taxing.”

Excited to get off the mark covering unchecked corporate power and the impact monopolies have on business, politics and markets. Here is my debut piece for @balancedeconomy.bsky.social: “The state of play in the fight against monopoly power” thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/the-state-...

Subscribe to The Counterbalance, our newsletter covering corporate power and the impact monopolies have on business, politics and markets. This week’s edition by @scottchipolina.bsky.social: “The state of play in the fight against monopoly power” thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/the-state-...

"it is no longer accurate to think of American Big Tech as private actors but as tools for foreign policymaking." "the US enjoys a monopoly on monopolies” “When you’re dealing with these corporations, you’re dealing with arms of the US state.” Well worth subscribing to @balancedeconomy.bsky.social

Yesterday, together with 35+ public interest groups, Balanced Economy Project urged European Commission president Von der Leyen and her colleagues to resist political pressure from Big Tech companies and prioritise the decisive enforcement of Europe's tech laws. rb.gy/s8712c

The Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, and EU antitrust rules are crucial for protecting our democracy and our economy. rb.gy/s8712c

Big Tech CEOs are seeking to mobilise the Trump administration to protect their ability to exploit users and businesses dependent on them. This exploitation has created an unfair digital economy and has negatively impacted the dynamism and pluralism of Europe’s economy. rb.gy/s8712c

...Governments have allowed them to do this, and are failing to regulate markets in the public interest. Governments must stamp out harmful monopoly power before it’s too late"

....They build market power by crushing competition, and use this monopoly power to jack up prices, and keep them high, ripping consumers off in the process. They buy political influence from the money they make from huge markups on retail prices - up to 75% for big tech services and products....

“To reclaim our democracy, we need to take control of the technology on which our society increasingly depends, and bring down the monopolies.” Our Executive Director, Claire Godfrey, on today´s report: "Monopoly billionaires use wealth to amass power to grow wealth in a vicious circle......

The EU competition authority can start this process by breaking up Google. Europe, the UK and others cannot cower to pressure from Silicon Valley via Washington D.C!

Governments must reclaim powers to regulate corporations and their owners, to stop them hoarding wealth and power at our collective expense. Europe needs to take a leading role in regulating and breaking up tech monopolies and reining in the excessive influence of billionaires.

Monopoly billionaires use wealth to amass power to grow more wealth in a vicious circle. Among the top 10 richest people in the world are 5 tech billionaires with a staggering €880.51 BILLION in combined wealth.

As the world’s ultra-rich set to meet at Davos next week, the report reveals Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Apple top the list of companies for lobby spending in Europe. The growing power and influence of giant corporations has a corrosive impact on our democracies.

BREAKING: Just five partners of the @wef control 11% of global GDP amounting to €11.91 TRILLION - more than 168 countries’ national incomes combined. New report from @balancedeconomy.bsky.social @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @globaljusticenow.bsky.social www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/dem...