The EU has agreed on new supervision and new rules for the big tech companies: The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is in many ways a revolutionary regulation that not only has consequences for companies like Google, Amazon or Meta, but also changes in the supervisory architecture.
The EU Commission gets more power, the national antitrust authorities a little less.
Michael König was there when EU member states and the EU Parliament negotiated the DMA, he is an adviser for platform regulation to the EU Commission and was one of its negotiators.
He explains what follows from the new rules, why they came about in record time, what will happen to app stores and messenger services - and how the American government actually finds it.