It's well known that the Obama administration felt the EU was using anti-trust law to implement protectionism: https://www.wired.com/story/google-big-eu-fine/

It's well known that the Obama administration felt the EU was using anti-trust law to implement protectionism: https://www.wired.com/story/google-big-eu-fine/ https://www.wired.com/story/google-big-eu-fine/ For his part, President Barack Obama called the EU's actions protectionism. "[Americans] have owned the Internet. Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that [European companies] can’t compete," Obama said in an interview with Recode in 2015. "And oftentimes what is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests."