1. 🇺🇸 ZELDIN TORCHES BRUSSELS’ RED TAPE

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently spoke with the EU-US Forum’s Matt Mowers about a wide range of topics, including how President Trump and his administration are implementing a bold agenda that stands in stark contrast to the overregulation coming out of Brussels.

“In one year, we are going to do more deregulation, than entire federal governments have done across, all federal agencies, across entire presidencies,” Administrator Zeldin said. The EPA’s deregulation agenda stands in stark contrast to Brussels’ own agenda riddled with red tape. Matt Mowers pointed out that the European economy is “essentially stagnant” thanks to the “overzealous overregulatory governance” of the European Union.

President Trump will not allow America to follow the same path as Europe, and his cabinet continues to push back on EU-driven ESG mandates, speech controls, and anti-free market policies.

“The President has campaigned on, and the public has spoken & demanded, that there is a strong priority and focus for fighting for American businesses and the American economy on the global stage,” Administrator Zeldin said.

President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to implement a bold conservative agenda. Brussels’ is continuing down a separate path, one that kneecaps enterprise and stunts economic growth. The EU-US Forum will continue to foster conversations like the recent discussion with Administrator Zeldin and shed light on the dangers of the leftist policies coming out of the EU.

2. 🐘 GOP AGs WARN CSRD & CSDDD “UNLAWFUL IN AMERICA”

A group of red-state attorneys general are urging American tech companies to stand firm against the EU’s regulatory overreach that they call “unlawful in America.”

16 GOP AGs led by Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier urged Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Unilever to “prioritize America” over DEI & ESG goals the EU is attempting to impose on American tech companies. The AGs warn that the EU rules would raise costs, trigger new litigation, and undermine U.S. energy development, hurting jobs and consumers here at home.

Read the full letter here.

Their focus is locked on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which require ridiculous climate-transition plans and supply-chain human rights policing, with hefty penalties for noncompliance.

The AGs assert that American companies should follow U.S. law, not regulations set by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

3.🚗 EU GREEN AGENDA SLAMS AUTO SECTOR

Europe’s green agenda was sold as a growth strategy. Instead, it’s exporting jobs, investment, and wealth out of Europe, or, as the European Conservative puts it in a recent analysis, “Brussels’ green dream is driving jobs abroad.”

The EU has recently strengthened regulations on the automotive industry. Brussels’ car CO2 regime caps average emissions at 95g/km, ratchets requirements down 15% by 2025 and 55% by 2030, and slaps €95-per-gram penalties on noncompliant models.

Officials tout a 28% drop in average new-car emissions since 2019, but the policy measures the lab, not the road: transport still accounts for roughly a fifth of EU emissions, and carbon credits shift numbers on paper more than pollution in reality. Now, the supply chain has shifted even further away from Europe… essential materials like lithium, cobalt, and permanent magnets are overwhelmingly controlled by China, deepening their dependence just as Europe talks about its own autonomy.

The EU aimed to align climate goals with competitiveness, but its overzealous regulations have backfired. Jobs and wealth are being offshored, proving the consequences of Brussels’ overregulation.

As President Trump has worked tirelessly to bring manufacturing back to the United States, Brussels does the opposite – piling on penalties and bureaucracy, then wondering why factories and innovation are drifting offshore. If Europe wants prosperity and cleaner tech, it needs less preaching, more investment, and rules that strengthen, not hollow out, its industry.

📱EU’S DMA BACKFIRES

The European Commission recently concluded its consultation period for the review of the Digital Markets Act, and, much like the legislation itself, the feedback received by the Commission proved disastrous.

Testimony from independent experts, consumer groups and business alike drew scratching criticism of the legislation, per a recent article. Their feedback shared a common thread: the DMA has not only failed in its aim to foster innovation and benefit consumers, but has also degraded existing app-functionality, crippled privacy standards, and held-up the launch of new features.

As the 3-year anniversary of the DMA’s implementation approaches, the EU would be wise to reconsider the legislation in light of this feedback.

Targeting American tech-companies with this legislation and fining them billions of dollars hasn’t resolved Europe’s own issues – it’s multiplied them, undermining both consumer privacy and security, among a host of other issues.