Top EU Official Accuses Trump Admin Of 'Blackmail' To Force Bloc To Ease Rules On Big Tech
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A top European Union official on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of using “blackmail” to force the 27-country bloc to weaken regulations affecting U.S. tech companies.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who visited Brussels for trade talks earlier this week, called on the EU to roll back its digital rules in exchange for a reduction of U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.
“They would like to have steel and aluminum as part of this package,” Lutnick told Bloomberg TV on Monday. “And we think it is very, very important that they understand our digital companies and they reconsider their digital regulations to be more inviting to our big companies.”
“Take your foot off the regulatory statement, build those data centers in America and in exchange for that, we’ll come up with a cool steel and aluminum deal,” Lutnick added.
Lutnick also urged the EU to settle its cases against Google and Amazon, while noting that the bloc would attract up to $1 trillion in investments if it followed his advice on weakening its digital rules.
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