French President Emmanuel Macron: Don’t Blame Russia for inaction on Microsoft, Apple, Facebook; because there’s an American…

French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Brussels of moving too slowly on investigations into American tech giants, claiming that US pressure—not Russian interference—is stalling the European Union’s enforcement of its digital regulations.

Speaking at a town hall event in the Vosges region of northeastern France, Macron singled out cases that have languished before the European Commission for two years under the Digital Services Act (DSA), calling the pace “much too slow.” According to Politico, the French leader warned that many officials at both the Commission and member state level “are afraid to pursue it because there’s an American offensive against the application of directives on digital services and markets.”