How is the EU breaking the 'grip' of tech giants? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot

Published connected 04/05/2026 - 8:00 GMT+2•Updated 8:10

On 28 April, the Commission recovered the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to person "opened up caller opportunities for businesses and developers, portion giving users much power implicit their experiences and devices".

With outer forces pushing backmost connected the DMA, the Parliament called for its improved enforcement during past week's 27-30 April plenary session.

The Commission backed its reappraisal with implicit 450 contributions from unfastened consultations received betwixt July and November 2025.

93 per cent of Europeans utilized net platforms successful 2024, a 2025 Eurostat study found. High idiosyncratic measurement puts large online platforms successful a ascendant position, turning them into “digital gatekeepers” betwixt millions of users and the remainder of the integer economy.

The word refers to their unlimited powerfulness successful integer markets, allowing them to enforce unfair conditions connected extremity users, specified arsenic controlling information and influencing competition.

The Commission labelled Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft, and Booking arsenic gatekeepers and classified 23 of their online services arsenic gateways.

Since November 2022, the DMA aims to bounds the powerfulness of large online platforms to marque integer markets fairer, much competitive, and unfastened to each innovators, businesses, and caller marketplace players.

It imposes preliminary obligations and prohibitions connected ample online platforms, alternatively than applying modular EU contention law.

Do you privation to cognize however the DMA contributes to a fairer online environment? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot!