And to the point of the discussion, there are no "limits" to what jurisdiction governments have. Governments--the United States especially but many others--does it all the time, especially as concerns financial matters. Many countries have declared that they have jurisdiction over crimes against humanity committed any time, anywhere, by anyone. China has penalized American companies for activities involving Americans in America.
However the EU probably has self-imposed limits (or imposed by the member states) and as a practical matter only large or powerful states can get away with it.
Mergers are a different thing, though. In this case, it also impacts the EU - and you can't just say we won't merge in the EU but will merge in the US, doesn't make sense.
A more analogues example would be e.g. if the EU would have said "Hey Adobe, if you launch this feature in the US, you can't do business in the EU".
> China has penalized American companies for activities involving Americans in America.
What are you referring to?
> Many countries have declared that they have jurisdiction over crimes against humanity committed any time, anywhere, by anyone.
This is a whole different topic, stop moving the goal posts.
mergers are different thing as the outcome, but the mechanism is the same> two companies based in US could not merge because EU said so. The fact that the outcome of the merge vs outcome of some implemented features are different are just details that are not relevant for this discussion. EU absolutely can impose it's will on foreign companies and if those want to be present in EU market, they'll follow the rules
Because two US companies merging has also a big impact on the EU market. A US company launching a feature in the US but not in the EU has no impact on the EU market. So no, it's not the same thing.
yes, as I said not the same thing as effect on eu market, but the final effect is the same: EU has the power to block a merger of two us companies at it's will even if for us govt the merger is totally ok and eu can bend this power in any direction including forcing a foreign company to implement a global policy
