Why the EU has no choice but to respond to Donald Trump’s bullying on tech regulation with a coercion investigation

By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University

Back in November 2023 – a time when it wasn’t even clear that Donald Trump would be allowed to run in the upcoming presidential primaries – the European Union approved a tough new “anti-coercion instrument”.

This stated: “Economic coercion exists where a non-EU country applies or threatens to apply a measure affecting trade or investment in order to prevent or obtain the cessation, modification or…

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