Amazon says EU has singled out US companies in a discriminatory manner

Global Economic Summit hears that only seven companies must comply with Digital Services Act, none of which were European

Amazon's Lucy Cronin: 'It is important to note that we have those 150,000 employees in Europe. We are competing directly with retailers in each member state. But we, as a company, are held to a much higher compliance bar than those with whom we are competing.'

The European Union spent the past five to seven years focusing on regulating US companies specifically, which was done in a discriminatory manner, said Lucy Cronin, the vice president of EU public policy at Amazon.

Speaking at the 2025 Global Economic Summit at the Europe Hotel in Killarney on Monday, Ms Cronin told attendees that individual US tech companies were largely singled out when it came to the regulatory environment in the European Union.