The European Commission is last fine on apple and meta According to research sources, to break the digital markets regulation (DMA). Since the Spanish Teresa Ribera is the leader of the European Executive Vice President and Competition Portfolio, they fall on big technical companies. Brussels to shuffle against two American technical flags come to the right in the middle of A trade war by Donald Trump With heavy tariffs on the multiple areas and countries of the planet.
Already a year ago than the European Commission He started investigating four great American technology (Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta) For violating digital market regulations. These four, along with other guardians — with organizations (Gatekeeper In the English parlance that manages the sector due to the large size and potential risk of the digital market, they have more responsibilities than the rest of the companies and have begun investigating before violating some of these demands. These files are being developed during these months and perhaps the first resolutions to be translated into penalties are already coming.
These sanctions are not the maximum provided in the standard, 10%of the world billing, the same resources pointed out. There are different explanations for this: one of them is only one year of violation time. DMA is in effect between 2023 and 2024. The biggest permission to contest Google for market abuse so far, according to the Commission, has been long since 2011. This amount is 4,343 million euros. Brussels are rare for that maximum limit, and in their great punishment usually choose a percentage of 3% of world billing.
Ribera was in Washington last week, to participate in a big annual competition event and in addition, he saw the United States competitive officials. Meeting with Spanish Gail Slator, responsible for the section Antitrust With the Department of Justice, and the Federal Commerce Commission President Andrew Ferguson. This is the first introduction between the two administrations, the two parties are new, and the maintenance of the cooperation being held in the last decade is mainly to be confirmed.
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Brussels tried to distinguish its digital regulations app, Digital Markets Regulation and Digital Services (DSA), as well as severe geographical differences between fines, trade war and Washington and Brussels. Its explanation is always responsible for applying law to the Commission and it is not discussed or may attend external conditions. An example of this took place on March 19. So, The Commission has decided to force Apple to open the iPhone’s digital ecosystem to third partiesThis is a more blow than a big fine, as it represents a change in the company’s business model.
The latter is a factor that is more concerned among larger technical institutions than grant. These companies enter a lot of money, in some cases their stock market assessment exceeds the GDP of countries like Spain: Apple must also multiply two. Therefore, at the headquarters of these technical giants, there is more attention when forcing changes in business models, because Brussels have concluded that their current methods are at risk of market abuse.
“It is not just penalties, but when they freed their Chinese and European opponents, the commission wants to harm the commission for just the fact that American successful institutions should be harmful for the fact,” Facebook parent company meta said, when asked about the decision that the commission would take soon. This political argument – usually much higher than corporate position shots – it maintains the place already shown at the beginning of the year. Then, the first Meta Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, distributed his company on their social networks (Facebook or Instagram) with moderation moderation and announced that it was loaded against European digital regulations, even though it was attacked on marketing regulations than service regulations.
Zuckerberg’s words to Europe in February were not far away from American Vice President Jedi Vans. Then, in a speech in Paris, he criticized what he considered as a high control of technology. European and American regulations are always very different. American is very focused on judging the freedom of business and other fundamental rights; On the other hand, in his book, Colombia University, Anu Broadford’s digital regulation expert in his book, explained in his latest book, Digital Empire, among European, all fundamental rights, consumers and market economies.
However, what Vans says in Paris is exceeded. “We are inviting your countries to work with us and follow that model for you. However, the Trump administration is concerned about reports that some foreign governments are pushing nuts to US technology companies that have international presence. Now, the United States will not accept it.”
