By Philip Blenkinsop and Supantha Mukherjee
BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The European Commision said on Tuesday it was assessing its cases against Apple (NASDAQ:), Alphabet (NASDAQ:), X and Meta (NASDAQ:), stressing and that President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House did not affect its commitment to enforcing its laws.
The European Union has been at the forefront of investigating U.S. Big Tech companies for potentially breaching laws designed to prevent them from using their clout to gain an unfair advantage over competitors.
Trump, who will start his second term as the United States’ 47th president on Monday, has been critical of various European policies and his ally Elon Musk has repeatedly clashed with regulators and politicians in the continent.
The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that Brussels was reassessing its investigations of Big Tech in a review which could lead it to scale back or change the scope of…
