The European Commission plans to impose sanctions on the United States after imposing the highest fine in history on Google
Russian State News Agency, Brussels - At a press conference held in Brussels, EU Commission Spokesman Olof Gill stated that after the EU Commission imposed the highest fine in history on Google, it plans to consider possible sanctions against the United States.
On September 5, the EU's antitrust department fined Google 2.95 billion euros for anti-competitive behavior in its advertising technology business. Subsequently, US President Trump stated that he does not recognize the European court's fines against Google and Apple.
Gill said when answering the corresponding question: "The European Commission is preparing for all possibilities, and all situations are under consideration."
The European Commission warned Alphabet, Google's parent company, in March, stating that it was involved in potential systematic violations of EU digital market competition rules. Alphabet owns the Google search engine.
The Digital Markets Act came into effect on November 1, 2022, and has been implemented in the EU since May 2023. The European Commission then identified a series of the largest online platform companies in the EU, including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta (prohibited in Russia as an extremist organization), Microsoft, and X Network. These companies are therefore directly regulated by the European Commission.
The European Commission warned that if any of these companies violate their obligations, the European Commission can impose a fine of up to 10% of the company's global turnover in the previous fiscal year. If they violate again, the fine could reach 20% of the turnover. If there is a systemic violation, the European Commission may even require the violating company to sell its business in the EU.
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