U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stepped directly into the center of European policymaking on Monday, pressing EU leaders to ease what Washington views as an increasingly punitive regulatory regime targeting American technology firms.

On his first official trip to Brussels since the July trade agreement, Lutnick made the administration’s position explicit: any movement on steel and aluminum tariffs—an urgent priority for Europe’s manufacturers—will depend on reforms to the bloc’s digital-regulatory framework and resolution of multibillion-euro cases against U.S. tech companies.

“Our suggestion is that the European Union and their trade ministers deeply consider trying to analyse their digital rules, try to come away with a balance,” Lutnick said at a joint appearance with U.S. Trad

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