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So what? US has signed bilateral trade agreements with EU for that reason. As much as EU may benefit from fines on US companies, it's still a strict application of the law. US also benefits from the strict application of their laws when EU companies try to enter the US market. Actually, EU companies rarely try it. Guess why.

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I think my point is that I can't find a case where an EU company has been threatened with antitrust action in the EU (or the US). Do you have a counter example? (Genuinely curious not trolling)

That leads me to believe these laws are "not strictly applied" but politically applied.

Get searching:

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm

I think you'll find the overwhelming majority are European companies.

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