{"id":34114,"date":"2026-08-24T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34114\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:39:21","slug":"brussels-changes-gear-on-big-tech-enforcement-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34114\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels changes gear on Big Tech enforcement \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For others, including academics and Commission officials, the shift is less a sign of a new strategy and more the product of a new, more technical approach to regulation whose effectiveness is best measured in its market impact \u2014 not by the fines it generates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of the DMA is to change behavior, not to maximize fines,\u201d said Alexandre de Streel, academic director of the digital research program at the Centre on Regulation in Europe, a Brussels-based think tank. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can judge the willingness or the effectiveness based on the fine imposed on the operator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What has changed is the machinery, he argues. The priorities related to digital market dominance remain as they were \u2014 data aggregation practices, self-preferencing by platforms and access to app stores.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-455913644-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8461880\"  \/>In the past few weeks, the European Commission has quietly wrapped up the first wave of cases \u2014 starting with the remaining Google probes. | Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The quiet instrument<\/p>\n<p>One tool that is doing more of the DMA\u2019s work is the so-called specification decision: a technical order setting out what compliance should look like, with no finding of illegality or fine. In July, one such decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/google-says-its-protecting-our-privacy-the-eu-thinks-its-guarding-its-monopoly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forced Google to share search data<\/a> with rivals, while another opened its Android smartphone operating system to rival AI assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Kay Jebelli of the Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition partly funded by Google and Apple, observes that the Commission wants to pursue a lower-profile strategy \u2014 in particular toward the Trump administration \u2014 while still packing a punch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission has pretty much exhausted established competition theories,\u201d Jebelli said. \u201cAs it ventures further into unknown territory, behavioral interventions like specification decisions and regulatory dialogue will stand on stronger legal footing and face less blowback from the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For others, including academics and Commission officials, the shift is less a sign of a new strategy and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[5637,278,7786,18,8153,79,2469,1395,466,3608,18490,6429,381,4133,115,175,84,3058,472,18491,85,1218,787,4137,258,181,87],"class_list":["post-34114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-antitrust","tag-big-tech","tag-breaches","tag-brussels","tag-cloud","tag-companies","tag-competition","tag-courts","tag-data","tag-digital","tag-digital-markets","tag-digital-markets-act","tag-donald-trump","tag-enforcement","tag-france","tag-industry","tag-markets","tag-payments","tag-platforms","tag-publishers","tag-regulation","tag-regulatory","tag-research","tag-tanks","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117149824894101791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}