Published on Apr 24, 2025
Thierry Breton, the former commissioner in charge of enforcing the EU’s landmark digital rules, said multi-million euro fines imposed on Apple (AAPL) and Meta (META) earlier this week were regrettable, emphasizing that financial penalties aren’t the aim of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Rather than a triumphant moment for Big Tech enforcement, the fines marked a failure on the part of the companies despite clear guidelines and repeated warnings from the European Commission, said Breton, in his first interview in Brussels since leaving his post of Internal Market commissioner last September. His remarks, on the sidelines of his keynote address at an event in Brussels, came on the day EU regulators handed out the first sanctions…
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