1. 👑 TRUMP NAMED MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN EUROPEAN POLITICS

This week, Politico named President Trump the most influential figure in European politics in 2025, underscoring how his agenda now sets the terms of debate across the continent.

President Trump’s policies on security, trade, energy, and deregulation are reshaping the conversation amongst voters in the EU. Polling from Politico this week also finds that Europeans “share Trump’s view that their leaders are weak.”

Politico states: “They rated Trump as more ‘strong and decisive’ than their own leader, by 74 percent to 26 percent in Germany; 73 percent to 27 percent in France; and 69 percent to 31 percent in the U.K.”

Not only does this polling show that President Trump is leading on the world stage but it proves that he has the power and persuasion to push back against EU policies like CS3D, CSRD, DMA, and DSA that have come after American businesses as of late.

If the President and his administration continue pushing back against overregulation and red tape, there is a brighter future in store for the EU.

2.🚨 SEN. TOM COTTON CALLS OUT EU FOR EXTRATERRITORIALITY

Washington is turning up the heat on Brussels over its efforts to impose radical EU regulations in the United States. Senior Republicans in Congress and leading U.S. industry groups warn that these measures would force American companies to adhere to outlandish EU tech and ESG red tape.

Sen. Tom Cotton told the Washington Reporter this week that the EU is “trying to export their disastrous economic model … by forcing American companies to comply with supply-chain and climate rules that their representatives have firmly rejected”.

This comes shortly after Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott and House Financial Services Chairman French Hill sent a letter warning that, unless the EU’s radical ESG policies, like the CSDDD and CRSD, are removed, Brussels will keep exporting European regulations to U.S. shores. They continued to call the radical ESG regulations a “direct threat to U.S. sovereignty.”

The U.S. is pushing back on Brussels to save American business, and our leaders wholeheartedly reject any attempt to offload Europe’s regulatory burdens onto American workers and consumers.

❌ USTR WARNS EU OVER DISCRIMINATORY DMA

The Office of the US Trade Representative made headlines this week with their announcement that the U.S. is considering retaliating against nine of Europe’s largest service providers if the EU continues “to restrict, limit, and deter the competitiveness of U.S. service providers through discriminatory means,” referring to the DMA and associated regulations which have hamstrung US tech companies over the past year and a half.

The move was widely celebrated with Conservative political commentator Steve Cortes recognizing the Administration for standing up for our workers and companies,” and the ITIF applauding them for “raising the alarm,” and they’re not alone.

Americans across the board are backing the Trump Administration in this fight, and for good reason. As Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) noted at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week,

“The DMA…does not even ask whether a business has done anything wrong. It asks whether a company is large, successful, and, most importantly, American. If the answer is yes, the rules suddenly change. Common business practices are banned, innovation is treated as a threat, and foreign rivals are handed access to data & technology they could never build or earn on their own.”

As EU leaders convene this week in Brussels, they should know President Trump won’t think twice about following through, especially when it comes to defending American companies. The ball is now in the EU’s court, and the clock is ticking.