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Good for her, but 5.62 million is too small. The EU has a much better track record of holding rich entities to account based on percentages of their wealth instead of set amounts. When you have a set amount fee it's only a problem for the poor.
Yes, that means a speeding ticket for Jeff Bezos should cost him $525,000,000, which is the equivalent between what he earned in 2023 (70 billion) multiplied by the current fee of about 300 on the average person's yearly income.
The vast majority of EU countries don't have income-dependent traffic fines. The EU itself can only fine corporations.
In fact, the kind of settlement reached in this case would be impossible in many EU jurisdictions, many of whom have no possibility for punitive damages. So E. Jean Carroll would only have been able to recuperate her actual, proven damages in those systems, and might have been able to force Trump to publish a rectification, but not much more.
On the other hand, a criminal conviction for rape would have been far more likely in many of these systems, if not in this case, then likely in others. For example, it is hard to imagine no investigation being started when someone claims under oath they were raped, as did happen in the US legal system.