While the spotlight has shifted to regulatory action under the EU Digital Markets Act, US big tech firms – Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft – each still face investigations under competition rules in Europe.
Most of the recent cases have been brought by national competition authorities, with France, Germany and Italy being particularly active.

Cullen International’s latest report gives a snapshot of past and pending antitrust investigations targeting big tech firms at the EU and national level (including the EU-27, the UK and Switzerland).
Our Antitrust & Mergers Database currently includes over 50 of these cases, 14 of them still pending.
To access the report, please click on “Access the full content” – or on “Request Access”, in case you are not subscribed to our Antitrust & Mergers service.
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