Brussels claps back at Trump’s tech threats

(Pieter Haeck and Mathieu Pollet – Politico) The European Commission fired back Monday at Donald Trump’s fresh tariff threats against Europe’s tech rules, just as EU and U.S. officials opened talks in Washington meant to repair their increasingly strained digital relationship. A delegation led by the EU’s top tech official, Roberto Viola, is in Washington until Wednesday for what the Commission is calling a “dialogue on a future potential dialogue” with its U.S. counterparts. The visit comes after the U.S. president threatened new tariffs on EU countries that impose digital service taxes on American tech companies in a post on his social media platform Friday. The U.S. State Department also called recent EU initiatives to boost tech sovereignty “protectionist,” in a comment to POLITICO on Sunday. – Brussels claps back at Trump’s tech threats – POLITICO