The EU is intensifying its challenge to Google, Meta, Apple and Elon Musk’s X in 2026, in regulatory moves that are expected to lead to renewed clashes with US big tech groups and President Donald Trump.
According to Brussels officials and policymakers, the European Commission is switching focus to enforcing an expansive digital rule book after years of negotiating landmark legislation to take on the world’s biggest technology groups.
That effort will face political challenges over the coming year. The Trump administration has demanded changes to the bloc’s tech rules and threatened to impose tariffs in retaliation for EU actions against Silicon Valley groups.