Financial time::
The President of the CE Von der Leyen: the EU can tax advertising revenues from large technologies, targeting Meta and Google, if Trump’s sales talks fail and will not return its “untouchable” rules– The president of the European Commission says to FT that she wants a “balanced” agreement but could strike the American services in retaliation
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