EU Pushes Back Against US Effort to Change Bloc’s Tech Rules (1)

The European Union’s chief trade negotiator said he would defend the bloc’s technology rules in a rebuke to US efforts to water down EU digital regulations.

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have made clear that Washington won’t lower tariffs on European steel and aluminum unless the EU eases some of its rules.

“Our regulations are democratically adopted by us through a very thorough legislative process,” the European Commission’s trade chief, Maros Sefcovic, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Monday. “We are going to protect our tech sovereignty.”

WATCH: Maros Sefcovic speaks on Bloomberg Television.

Source: Bloomberg

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