A clear warning signal from a group of civil society orgs on the potential costs should the next European Commission over-fixate on 'competitiveness'. "Corporate welfare packages to the biggest firms' would reinforce abuses of market power and rent-seeking," they say.

🇬🇧@CMAgovuk finds that Microsoft's poaching of Inflection staff constitutes a merger under UK law but that that it doesn't raise serious competition concerns

📢 Big News: European Commission unexpectedly wins its 14.2 billion euro tax case against Apple and Ireland before EU's highest court‼️

"The 🇮🇪 [Department of Finance] confirmed that over €10 million has been spent so far on managing the Apple tax case." rte.ie/news/business/…

This week, the European Commission won an 8-year battle to force Apple to pay 13 billion in unpaid taxes. It all started in 2013 with the forensic eye and stubborn determination of one woman, and ended in the biggest scalp that any global regulator has claimed in the war on

.Emmanuel Macron puts forward Stéphane Séjourné as Commissioner Candidate for a portfolio "centered on the challenges of industrial sovereignty, technology and European competitiveness" lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/macr…

🔴 Today the European Commission has appointed Prof. Emanuele Tarantino emanuele tarantino as new Chief Competition Economist at the Directorate-General for Competition 👤 We look forward to working with him! More information 👇 europa.eu/!xGY9pJ #EUCompetition

Keep a breakup of #Google on the table in the @EU_commission ad tech case, say a group of civil society groups in a letter to Margrethe Vestager and Teresa Ribera. "Lesser tools [...] will fail here," they write, asking DG COMP to work with 🇺🇸 Antitrust Division in designing a divestment.

Out in cinemas today in Brussels – I highly recommend!

I'll be speaking with Tim Cowen Tim Cowen today about where the EC, CMA and DOJ Google Ad Tech cases may be headed in the year to come. Tune in at 4pm CET / 10am EST.

Some personal/professional news: I am delighted to be joining POLITICOEurope this week as a reporter covering EU competition, tech and industrial policy. I am reachable at [email protected] – coffees, chats and story ideas all welcome.

.Teresa Ribera in @Elpais on Trump admin threats to 🇪🇺 EU tech rules: "What we are not going to do is allow ourselves to be carried away by the populism of the other side... We respect the rules of the game" elpais.com/internacional/…

.European Commission 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 politico.eu/article/eu-fin…

[Featured]  #Tech: #Apple’s EU fight is transatlantic tension in a nutshell. The tech giant was hit by another European fine. It’s just the latest chapter in the battle over digital regulation ― and maybe a whole lot more, by Jacob Parry | Politico politico.eu/article/apple-…

#Meta's reaction to the European Commission's DMA decision was "somewhat infantile," Teresa Ribera tells EL PAÍS España elpais.com/economia/2025-…

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🚨 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

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission today fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in the advertising technology market. Full story: politico.eu/article/eu-sla…

🔴ENQUÊTE POLITICO - Depuis des mois, Apple s’appuie sur plus de 200 salariés de la société Transperfect pour entraîner son propre chatbot d’IA. J'ai obtenu les 125 pages de directives qui guident leur travail. ⤵️ politico.eu/article/commen…