Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union.
When Thierry Breton first met Mark Zuckerberg in Brussels in 2020 — shortly after being appointed as a commissioner — the world’s biggest tech companies didn’t really think that European legislators could regulate them, the Frenchman reflected. Almost four years on, with the release of the bloc’s landmark content-moderation and competition rules, those companies are now taking the EU seriously, Breton says. Whether he’s right will likely define the commissioner’s tenure. Read more about the man who’s made himself the face of the EU’s tech rules.