By Anna Ferrari ( October 8, 2026, 09:09 GMT | Insight) -- The EU's Digital Markets Act has yet to demonstrate its promised benefits, US Federal Trade Commission official Mark Meador said, arguing that available evidence doesn’t show the rules have improved legal certainty, accelerated enforcement or tied interventions to demonstrated harm. Meador urged greater international convergence around case-by-case competition enforcement, targeted remedies and procedural fairness.The European Union's rules for digital gatekeepers have yet to demonstrate that imposing broad obligations in advance delivers greater legal certainty, faster enforcement or remedies tied to demonstrable harm, Mark Meador, a commissioner at the US Federal Trade Commission, said at a conference on Thursday*....
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