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Big Tech's EU antitrust fines are no benchmark for DMA sanctions, Guersent says

By Nicholas Hirst ( April 1, 2025, 21:19 GMT | Insight) -- The EU's top competition official said today that officials and tech companies were on a "learning curve" when it came to compliance with the EU's regulation for gatekeeper digital platforms and that this could limit the level of any sanctions in forthcoming decisions. Olivier Guersent cautioned against the idea that fines under the EU's Digital Markets Act are comparable with billion-euro antitrust fines for long-running offenses. He also advocated for a single set of guidelines for horizontal, vertical and conglomerate mergers.Recent billion-euro antitrust fines against Big Tech companies should not be the benchmark for sanctions under the EU’s law-book for digital gatekeepers, according to the EU’s top competition official....

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