A banner outside the EU's Berlaymont building in Brussels calls on European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to resist ‘big tech’ power. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images
European Commissioner for tech Henna Virkkunen is not too keen on you knowing what Meta, Google and other big US online firms have been saying to her.
A year-long fight to press the EU’s powerful executive arm to cough up correspondence between Virkkunen and tech giants says a lot about the way commission president Ursula von der Leyen has tightened up the control of information.
The union’s digital regulations have become a real point of tension in the fraying relationship between Europe and the United States. Virkkunen, who oversees the bloc’s digital rules, has had to contend with serious political pushback from tech firms and the Trump
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