The Digital Markets Act, Meta, and the End of Globalization

At the end of April 2025, the European Commission closed its investigation into Meta’s Terms and Conditions and found the company responsible for breaching the Digital Markets Act. The paper analyses the impact of this decision on the European approach to the digital market and suggests the opening of a new era: the Commission’s commitment to preventing data accumulation and aggregation by gatekeepers is a far cry from the regulator’s neutrality, which has been a pillar of European regulation since the beginning of globalisation. The new awareness of the limitations of the power of some major digital market players is then considered a prelude to a new legal discourse, in which it seems to be the seed of an unprecedented European constitutional approach.