Tech Policy Press - Digital Markets Act Roundup January 2025

Europe director Max von Thun’s thoughts are citd advocating for strengthening the EU’s digital regulations to achieve digital sovereignty.

The EU should be doubling down on its digital rulebook” in order to create a digitally sovereign EU.

January 2025 was marked by regulatory uncertainty around the future of the Digital Services Act Package, comprising the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act (DMA), and more generally, Europe’s ability to enforce its digital laws. According to Javier Espinoza and Henry Foy for the Financial Times, Brussels regulators are reassessing current investigations against companies like Apple, Meta, and Google. Espinoza and Foy report that the shift comes “just as the US companies urge [President] Donald Trump to intervene against what they characterise as overzealous EU enforcement” and could lead to potentially scaling back probes covering “all cases launched since March last year under the EU’s digital markets regulations.”

Espinoza and Foy also reported that a Commission spokesperson had publicly stated that there “is no such review taking place.” Two days later, Samuel Stolton and John Ainger reported for Bloomberg that Teresa Ribera, the new Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and Commissioner for Competitiveness, denied claims that enforcement was slowing. She later delivered a speech at the Forum Europa emphasizing the importance of competition law in general and the DMA in particular.

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