BRUSSELS — The United States should let go of trying to change the European Union’s tech rules, senior EU lawmakers suggested Tuesday.

“There is a certain level of tiredness in Brussels when it comes to responding to these talking points from Washington,” German center-right MEP Andreas Schwab told POLITICO.

Schwab’s comments were in response to a call from the U.S. ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, for fresh political talks on the EU’s digital rulebooks.

In an interview with POLITICO on Monday, Puzder said he hoped that a vote on an EU-U.S. trade deal this week in the European Parliament would set the scene for talks on easing digital rules.

“I don’t see any political appetite in the European Parliament but not even in Council for scaling back our digital legislation dealing with malicious content, manipulation or unfair treatment of startups and consumers alike,” Italian socialist Brando Benifei told POLITICO.

The U.S. administration has repeatedly tried to loosen the EU’s two rulebooks, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, which they say unfairly target American companies.

The EU denies that claim and has said it will not cave to pressure.

“Whether it is Andrew Puzder today or others before him, the script remains the same: They characterize European law as an “attack” while ignoring that these rules were debated democratically over several years and made for the benefit of consumers and companies, including American companies,” Schwab said.

Schwab, who led talks in the Parliament over the EU’s Digital Markets Act, said the law is “not an opening bid in a trade negotiation; it is a settled legal reality.”

The European Parliament will on Thursday vote to move forward the 2025 transatlantic trade deal agreed between the EU and the U.S.

Puzder on Monday called on the European Parliament to back the deal, telling POLITICO it would unlock deeper transatlantic cooperation on energy, tech and AI even as he pledged to seek to revisit the bloc’s digital rules.

Benifei, who leads the Parliament’s delegation on U.S. relations, warned that if U.S. “requests become a form of pressure over other issues like the trade deal or energy,” they will “backfire.”

That’s because EU “constituents are fed up of threats, especially now that they are suffering from increased energy prices linked to the war in Middle East,” he said.

Oil prices have spiked to their highest levels in recent years after the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran, leaving European consumers worried about energy prices and inflation.

The Trump administration’s “obsession” with the EU’s tech rules “should make us suspicious,” said German Green Alexandra Geese. “The [EU] should stand firm by its own rules and start enforcing them in a robust way,” she said in a text message.

Speaking at POLITICO’s Competitive Europe summit in Brussels on Tuesday, Renew lawmaker Ana Vasconcelos said in reaction to Puzder: “Let’s talk about it.”

“I think that the U.S. has not been scoring very well on protection and free speech, especially under the Trump administration,” Vasconcelos said, adding that the EU’s tech regime might attract American talent who see a “better fit for them.”

Ella Jakubowska, head of policy at digital rights group EDRi, said that if U.S. tech giants are putting pressure on the Trump administration to lobby against laws like the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, then it “shows that these laws are working.”

“They are feeling the pain of the fines of the enforcement actions,” which is “evidence actually for why we should be doubling down on these rules and the benefits that they bring us in Europe.”

Ellen O’Regan and Pieter Haeck contributed reporting.