Europe is fined 'Apple' and 'Meta' 700 million euros and disregarded Trump's threats

The European Union has imposed relatively modest fines on the companies “Apple” and “Mita Platforms”, a total of 700 million euros ($ 798 million), due to the violation of new strict monopoly laws aimed at major technological enterprises, after warnings from US President Donald Trump that his country could respond strongly. The European Union regulators imposed these fines – 500 million euros on “Apple” and 200 million euros on “Meta” – according to the Digital Markets Act, which includes a list of instructions and ban on giant technology companies in Silicon Valley. These sanctions are much lower than the previous fines imposed under the Traditional Competition Act of the European Union, and are likely to be seen as an attempt to avoid Trump’s provocation, which recently announced the imposition of a set of customs duties around the world economies. Trump has considered the European Union regulations, specifically a kind of commercial barriers that are not matters, which seek “mutual definitions”, as it describes to target it. The European Commission said that “Apple” does not allow developers to add links that enable them to sell their products outside the system or store. He also violated the ‘Mita’ business model for advertising -free services on ‘Instagram’ and ‘Facebook’ the Technology Act, giving regulators the powers to impose fines of up to 10% of the company’s global annual income. Europe: “Apple and Meta are not committed,” said Terisa Rebiera, head of monopoly in the European Union, “Apple and Mita were unable to fulfill their obligations.” And “All companies working in the European Union must apply laws and respect European values.” The fines are the first under the digital market law. Both companies must meet the European Union’s decision within 60 days, otherwise they will face the risk to impose additional financial fines. Apple also received a warning that the new fee structure it developed for application developers is a plan to comply with the European Union Laws-is not compatible with the basis of the group of major technology companies. Apple’s response to the fine, Apple’s response strongly to the fine announced by the European Union, and accuses the regulatory authorities in the Union of Discrimination against the Company and forces it to provide its technology for free. The company, based in Cuperno, California, said it would be an appeal over the fine for European courts. Last year, the European Union imposed a fine on Apple at a value of 1.8 billion euros for the exclusion of competitive enterprises in the field of music broadcast on iPhone devices. Meta also replied, saying that the European Union “is trying to hinder successful US businesses while Chinese and European companies work according to various criteria.” However, the Supervisory Bodies of the European Union have closed an investigation with Apple over the Internet browsers after being rearranged the way more options for users on “iPhone”. The European Union regulators also withdrew their decision to target the “Market Place” Facebook store under the Digital Markets Act. The European Union imposed a fine of 798 million euros on “Mita” last year after accusing it of unfair behavior or abuse of its services under the anti -traditional monopathy legislation. European fines on technology giants Over the past few years, the European Union has imposed excessive fines on companies, including a fine of more than $ 8 billion against the company “Google”, which is affiliated with Alphabet, in addition to issuing a decision that obliges Apple to pay late tax of 13 billion euros. According to the rules associated with the abuse of hegemony, the European Union also introduced changes on the “Amazon” market platform and the touch party of the company “Apple, in addition to the opening of an investigation into the” Teams “video conference program of Microsoft.