Whatsapp is critical communication infrastructure in Europe. Made by a US company but with more customers in the EU. Regulation thus gets weird!
davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has...
Like payment infrastructure (Visa/Mastercard/Apple Pay), EU could benefit from more digital sovereignty.
Most Europeans text each other using an American-owned app that most Americans have never heard of. Yet the US government is trying to block the EU from regulating it.