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> US is historically more prone to favor business, while EU seems more concerned in protecting consumers.

Well that's not that obvious... Sure EU is more than willing to protect consumers from foreign(American) megacorporation because the cost of doing that is very low.

Entrenched major local companies? Well stifling competition through excessive regulation and propping up to bit too fall semi-zombie corporations is not necessarily that great for consumers long-term.






Do you have examples of targeted protections against foreign companies? Everything that comes to mind to me applies to all companies local or foreign.

Hypothetical local companies? The type of major tech corporations that are effected by DMA and similar regulations simply do not exist in Europe.

Regulating and fining them is very cheap politically when there are no jobs that can be lost or lobbyists to disappoint.




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