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decision, saying the DSA is designed to ensure a fair and safe playing field for all companies.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
The EU's Digital Services Act, or DSA, has been a long-standing source of tension with the US because it imposes responsibilities on big tech platforms, such as to be transparent about their processes to take down illegal content and to combat disinformation.
US officials have often characterized it as targeting American companies.
In announcing he can no longer visit the U.S., the State Department blamed former EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton personally for the legislation, which was enacted last year.
A European Commission statement strongly condemns the U.S.
decision, saying the DSA is designed to ensure a fair and safe playing field for all companies and that, if needed, the EU will act to defend its regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
The EU's Digital Services Act, or DSA, has been a long-standing source of tension with the US because it imposes responsibilities on big tech platforms, such as to be transparent about their processes to take down illegal content and to combat disinformation.
US officials have often characterized it as targeting American companies.
In announcing he can no longer visit the U.S., the State Department blamed former EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton personally for the legislation, which was enacted last year.
A European Commission statement strongly condemns the U.S.
decision, saying the DSA is designed to ensure a fair and safe playing field for all companies and that, if needed, the EU will act to defend its regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
The Danish and Greenlandic prime ministers put out a joint statement aimed at Washington, emphasizing national borders and sovereignty are matters of international law, that other countries can't simply be annexed, as President Trump has suggested of Greenland in the past.
European Commission spokesman Anwar al-Nuni issued a similar response from Brussels.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars-Luke Rasmussen summoned U.S.
Ambassador Ken Howery to issue a formal complaint.
The foreign ministers of Finland, Norway and Sweden all expressed strong support for their Nordic neighbor.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.