Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in Fines for Flouting DMA
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Dirk Auer, director of competition policy at ICLE, is quoted in this The Register article on Meta and Apple’s fines for non-compliance with the EU’s Digital Market Act. Read the full story here.
Dirk Auer, director of competition policy at the International Center for Law and Economics, likewise expressed concern that the fines would only make international tensions worse.
“These actions provide fodder for claims that Europe is targeting American tech champions for political reasons, not legal ones, and could provoke a cycle of escalating tariffs with consequences far beyond the digital realm,” Auer said. “These fines send a troubling signal: that Europe may be prioritizing punitive enforcement over practical outcomes.”