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European digital regulation comes under attack from Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg

The European Union seems powerless to counter the assault waged by the US president-elect and Big Tech, against laws designed to regulate the EU's digital space.

Waged in the name of freedom of expression by Donald Trump and American tech giants – foremost among them Elon Musk's social media platform, X – it targets Europe's fledgling digital regulations and Brussels' competition policy, which has seen Apple, Google and Facebook fined billions of euros over recent years. In recent weeks, Musk, who will be in charge of "government efficiency" for the incoming Trump administration, has, for his part, entered into political debates in the UK and Germany, where he is backing the far-right AfD party in the February 23 federal elections. On January 10, while speaking on the podcast hosted by Joe Rogan, an outspoken Trump supporter, Zuckerberg blamed the EU for having imposed"more than $30 billion" in fines on American Big Tech over the "last 10 or 20 years," comparing them to tariffs under another name.

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