By Mike Swift ( August 20, 2025, 00:25 GMT | Comment) -- US tech companies have long criticized Europe’s expansive regulatory framework on competition and privacy, but the number of critics appeared to be widening at an influential US tech policy conference this week. Some of the criticism appears to be fueled by a report last year by Mario Draghi, the EU's former central banker, who concluded that the EU needs to set up a framework to coordinate competitiveness, make its lawmaking faster and reduce its regulatory burden. There is one area where Europe and the US may be making progress, one expert said: data transfers.US tech companies have long criticized Europe’s expansive regulatory framework on competition and privacy. But in the year since an influential report advised the EU to pare back its regulatory burden, the sources of that critique have only expanded....
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