Samuel Stolton

UBS, Nomura, and UniCredit failed to overturn European Union antitrust fines totaling hundreds of millions of euros levied over allegations they colluded on government bond trading during the region’s sovereign debt crisis. https://t.co/Gd22cliQSk

Scoop: Coca-Cola's business in Europe was one of the unidentified targets of European Union antitrust raids earlier this month, according to people familiar with the probe: https://t.co/wta2qWASrR

The EU's antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said the bloc won’t shy away from taking on Silicon Valley firms for fear of retaliation from the White House, telling a Bloomberg audience that the bloc won't "remain in a corner.” https://t.co/v0cRbbIBiM

Google was warned to step in line with the EU’s Big Tech rules or risk hefty fines as part of a escalation against Silicon Valley that risks inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump. Apple was told it must loosen the shackles on its prized iPhone: https://t.co/JmzpYvFJoi

RT @lewis_crofts: “It can be done. Don’t take no for an answer.” One of the BBC’s finest reporters on how disability isn’t an obstacle to…

RT @viaCristiano: The chair of the FTC, an independent regulatory agency, keeps referring to his own commission as the "Trump-Vance FTC." I…

RT @BrodyFord_: scoop: Stargate's first data center in Abilene is set to receive 64,000 Nvidia GB200's as part of an initial build-out. wit…

Google follows with its own censure against the Digital Markets Act, also noting that EU citizens face an increased risk of hacking. (Footnote: the criticisms across the board are largely platitudinous). https://t.co/bbzKqrelR6

Samuel Stolton @SamuelStolton

Meta is out of the track first in this year's Digital Markets Act #DMA compliance reports. But it's not all roses. One graph accuses the commission of going beyond the limits of the law in its investigation into Meta's “pay or consent” ad model. https://t.co/PCQpXLep9T

Meta is out of the track first in this year's Digital Markets Act #DMA compliance reports. But it's not all roses. One graph accuses the commission of going beyond the limits of the law in its investigation into Meta's “pay or consent” ad model. https://t.co/PCQpXLep9T

Samuel Stolton @SamuelStolton

Letters dispatched from Brussels to Washington on the Digital Markets Act #DMA, from both EC and EP, pleading innocence against targeting American Big Tech. Difficult message to sell as things stand. Proof...pudding...eating...

Letters dispatched from Brussels to Washington on the Digital Markets Act #DMA, from both EC and EP, pleading innocence against targeting American Big Tech. Difficult message to sell as things stand. Proof...pudding...eating...

RT @nat_droz: 🎁 Gift Link: ⁦@ZelenskyyUa⁩’s blowup with ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ leaves allies confronting what they call a “disaster” — story w/…

RT @Kasparov63: Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to…

RT @drewharwell: The reporter who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is from the pro-Trump network Real America’s Voice and Re…

EU aware that the American Era of foreign policy supremacy is over. It seems - at least in words - Europe is prepared to take up the mantle.

Kaja Kallas @kajakallas

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

European Commission President @vonderleyen responds by standing firm behind Ukrainian people. But EC stops short of calling out the cruel theatre in the Oval Office for what it really was. No condemnation of Trump / Vance from EU, yet.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President @ZelenskyyUa. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

You’d hope that rather than descending into a war of words, European nations would be hyper-vigilant to how Putin could seek to take advantage of this - and how quickly he might do so. Pre-emptive action important.

RT @davidfrum: No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin comm…