Google faces another test in EU court over 1.5-bn euro fine
An EU court has planned to rule on Wednesday on Google’s appeal of a 1.49-billion euro ($1.65 billion) fine from the European Union, a week after the US tech giant suffered a stinging legal defeat over a bigger penalty.
An EU court has planned to rule on Wednesday on Google’s appeal of a 1.49-billion euro ($1.65 billion) fine from the European Union, a week after the US tech giant suffered a stinging legal defeat over a bigger penalty.
Regulators worldwide are turning up the heat on Google parent Alphabet with trials and probes into one of the world’s most valuable companies.
Brussels scored a victory last week when the EU’s highest court in Luxembourg upheld a 2017 fine worth 2.42 billion euros against Google, for abusing its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service.
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Leading the way forward in targeting big tech abuses, the European Commission slapped Google with fines worth a total of 8.2 billion euros between 2017 and 2019 over antitrust violations.
At stake on Wednesday is the third of those fines, worth 1.49 billion euros, which the EU’s powerful antitrust regulator imposed after finding that Google abused its dominance via its AdSense advertising service.
The Luxembourg-based General Court will publish its decision on Google’s appeal against the fine after 0730 GMT.
Google asked the court to annul — in full or partially — the commission’s decision and/or annul or cut the fine.
The long-running legal battles between Google and the EU do not end there.
