Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington DC think tank advocating for innovation-friendly technology policy.
ITIF senior counsel Joseph Coniglio called the European Commission's EUR 890 million fine against Google, imposed on 23 July 2026, "a sad day for transatlantic relations" and said Washington "increasingly has no choice but to consider retaliatory measures".
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What does a US tech think tank have to say about Europe's chip policy failures?
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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a Washington DC think tank, founded in 2006, that advocates for pro-innovation, market-led technology policy across broadband, AI, trade and Science. It describes itself as non-partisan but consistently argues against precautionary regulation and for free-trade positions, and is funded by a mix of technology companies, foundations and government grants.
Its president, Robert Atkinson, is a frequent commentator on industrial policy, semiconductor supply chains and US-China technology competition. ITIF has tracked EU technology regulation closely and critically: its analysis of the EU's decision to block the Intel Magdeburg megafab informed European debate on semiconductor policy failures , and it has repeatedly argued that Digital Markets Act enforcement discriminates against American firms.
That consistent framing, that EU tech regulation targets US companies rather than genuine market harms, gives ITIF a recurring role as an American industry voice inside Brussels-Washington disputes, one that surfaces whenever a new EU fine or rule lands on a US technology firm.
It condemns a record antitrust fine
When the European Commission issued its first DMA fine, EUR 890 million against Google, on 23 July 2026, ITIF's senior counsel Joseph V. Coniglio called it "a sad day for transatlantic relations", arguing Brussels had chosen to "weaponize the DMA to extract huge fines from America's leading innovators" rather than cooperate against Chinese techno-economic competition .
ITIF framed the fine as part of a pattern rather than an isolated case, noting American firms have now paid nearly $2 billion in DMA fines in just over a year, and warned that Washington "increasingly has no choice but to consider retaliatory measures" under Section 301, a threat Trump acted on the following day with a tariff probe into EU tech rules.
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