Johan Van Overtveldt on the European Competition Report: “We must break up the monopoly position of the tech giants”

“Those huge companies have tremendous power. They can eliminate competitors and wring the necks of budding initiatives.” In the De Ochtend radio show on Radio 1, MEP Johan Van Overtveldt elaborated on the Competition Report, which the European Parliament wants to use to break up the monopoly position of tech giants such as Facebook and Amazon. Johan Van Overtveldt contributed to writing that Competition Report. “The substantive issue is that monopoly. There are lawsuits in the United States that show that the big tech companies make deals among themselves and divide markets. Their saying that they play the game fairly as regards competition is clearly not true.”