In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

Sales of Teslas have plummeted across Europe, as car buyers turn on Elon Musk. In Germany, new Tesla passenger car registrations dropped nearly 60 per cent year-on-year. New data showed Tesla accounted for just 0.