By Edith Hancock
The European Commission's new chief competition enforcer pushed back against concerns that the regulator might weaken its efforts to curb Big Tech companies in the bloc ahead of U.S. President-elect Trump's inauguration next week.
"It is our duty to preserve the proper implementation of the law," Teresa Ribera said Thursday on the sidelines of an event in Brussels. The Financial Times reported on Jan. 14 that EU officials might be reassessing how the bloc will wrap up investigations into Meta Platforms, Apple and Alphabet's Google under the Digital Markets Act, the EU's new antitrust rules targeting tech giants.
Ribera said there is "no freezing, no reassessment" of enforcement. Ribera said she was "100% confident" the watchdog would stick to its own deadlines in advancing its Big Tech probes, which are expected to progress by March this year.
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