I'm rarely negative, but I'd like to comment on this and discuss it with you, because I'm interested in your opinion!

I wouldn't like to drag politics into this, although with yesterday's Babiš post I was pretty close. :D

But this really interests me, since it's also a big investment topic.

Yesterday $GOOG got fined 890 million euros by the European Union for favoring its own services.

So I looked through the statistics and came across this graph.

The European Union probably earns more money from fining Big Tech than from income taxes from European technology companies.

Personally, I see it as a pretty big middle finger to the big technology companies, which don't exist anywhere but the US.

In Europe, we have no strong players in the technology industry, except for $ASML, without which the world's tech companies couldn't do.

But this comparison seems very sad to me personally, and I hope it won't be like this for long in the future...

How do you see this? Do you think Europe is lagging behind technologically?