02/06/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 2 June, the European Commissioner for Competition, Teresa Ribera, said that her departments were “in discussions” with Apple and Meta concerning “attempts to improve the interoperability” of their commercial practices, which were fined at the end of April under the ‘DSA’ Regulation governing digital services (see EUROPE 13626/2). She pointed out that the two platforms had “60 days” to find a solution to the infringements identified, and that they could even challenge the Commission’s decisions before the Court of Justice of the EU. “Our approach is simply to apply the existing Regulation in order to protect European consumers”, and this implementation is not “linked to any other political or commercial negotiations” underway, she stressed, when asked about accusations from across the Atlantic that the EU was using its legislative arsenal to protect its digital market, or even to muzzle freedom of expression. (MB)