Dirk Auer on Foreign Regulations Unfairly Targeting U.S. Technology Firms

Dirk Auer December 16, 2025

ICLE Director of Competition Policy Dirk Auer was quoted by AppleInsider article following his testimony at the House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, where he argued that foreign regulations like the EU’s Digital Markets Act are politicized tools designed to target U.S. giants like Apple and Meta. Read the full paper here.

The three expert witnesses are presenting written testimony that totals over 60,000 words. Dirk Auer, director of competition policy at the International Center for Law and Economics, for instance, argues that EU regulations have “become unmistakably politicized,” and the Digital Markets Act was “pitched even by its framers as a tool to target American success.”