US lawmakers urge Trump to act against EU tech rules, suggest trade probes

BRUSSELS, July 21 (Reuters) – A group of 25 ?U.S. lawmakers has written to U.S. President Donald Trump urging him to act against Europe’s tech rules including launching trade investigations, saying EU digital policies unfairly target U.S. Big Tech. Sign up here. “We write to bring ?to your attention the many ways the EU continues to pursue anti-competitive acts, policies, and practices ?as a tool of economic extraction and regulatory coercion against American firms and to encourage your administration ?to take decisive action before the EU further entrenches this anti-American regime,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. The European Commission,…