The EU’s Been Tough on Tech. It Wants to Get Tougher: QuickTake

The European Union has long been the world’s most aggressive regulator of the world’s biggest technology firms — and perhaps the most frustrated. Heavy fines can easily be shrugged off by these cash-rich giants, regulations aimed at specific practices often fall behind in a fast-moving sector and traditional approaches like antitrust investigations can be too slow to prevent the market consolidation they’re meant to prevent. Determined to do more, the EU is now set to unveil sweeping legislatio