EU competition chief Teresa Ribera is responsible for enforcing the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. The Trump administration has demanded changes to the bloc’s tech rules and threatened to impose tariffs in retaliation for EU actions against Silicon Valley groups. Prosecutors have won some landmark rulings that tech companies maintained illegal monopolies. For its part, the EU faces a difficult balancing act, since it wants to enforce its digital rules without triggering a transatlantic trade war or provoking the US president into siding with Russia on Ukraine. But she added that when it came to enforcing its digital rules, “there is pay-off to moving forward and achieving outcomes that benefit the European people and business users”.

Source: The Irish Times January 05, 2026 18:29 UTC