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Brussels seeks information on digital payments from groups including banks and app makers
Margrethe Vestager’s new role gives her power to move beyond fines
Fines are not enough to ensure fair playing field, says EU antitrust chief
Vestager’s interim order against Broadcom seen as useful tool in fast-moving markets
Law against illegal internet content could have serious repercussions
ECJ rules social media group can be forced to take down posts such as hate speech
Tech group to show just headlines in France in response to EU copyright ruling
Microsoft president Brad Smith expects governments to start setting broad codes for the industry
Gender-balanced team already causing controversy
Vestager holds on to beefed-up competition role in new ‘geopolitical’ commission
Antitrust probe launched over concerns Libra coin could unfairly disadvantage rivals
Although to the libertarian high priests of the internet, this would be heresy
Offer comes in response to EU antitrust fine
Competition law should take changing business models into account
Brussels says case for working together on setting technical standards has ‘never been greater’
Digital Services Act will force tech companies to remove material such as hate speech
GDPR review urges regulators to find other ways to sanction companies breaking data rules
Vestager’s last stand
Ministers make progress on compromise after US and France clashed over big tech levies
Penalty imposed on US chipmaker as antitrust chief Vestager prepares to leave office
Fines alone cannot solve structural challenges behind privacy lapses
Brussels competition chief questions how US giants use data and exploit dominance
Threat to US tech groups from digital tax could lead to retaliatory tariffs on French goods
Online fragmentation may be inevitable if values and tastes differ fundamentally
Parts of Brussels’ data privacy regulation are holding European tech companies back
