EU’s Ribera Won’t Trade Big Tech Rules to Placate Trump

The European Union’s crackdown on Apple Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google isn’t a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with US President Donald Trump, according to Teresa Ribera, the EU’s competition chief.

In an interview, Ribera rejected suggestions that enforcement of the landmark Digital Markets Act — slammed by Trump as an unfair tax on Silicon Valley — could be sacrificed as part of a deal to dodge punitive EU tariffs pitched by the White House.