EU rules have often applied to American firms, insofar as they wanted to offer their wares in the bloc. But regulation in practice hit European firms harder https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/04/22/how-europe-regulated-itself-into-american-vassalage?taid=69ef46647f2a6a0001b199bc&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=voante
