\u00a33.5bn fine<\/strong><\/a> imposed by the Commission for limiting competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. <\/p>\nThe latest penalty will do nothing to warm already frosty relations between the EU and the US president. <\/p>\n
It follows earlier DMA rulings this year against Meta and Apple. <\/p>\n
Mr Trump, who has frequently criticised Europe’s regulation of US big tech, is facing calls from senior Republicans to escalate his trade war with Brussels. <\/p>\n
A group of 25, including members of the House trade subcommittee, wrote to him this week complaining that US firms were being singled out and unfairly targeted. <\/p>\n
“If a dialogue does not deliver quickly, the United States should use all available tools, including but not limited to Section 301 of the Trade Act of \u200b1974,” they said, invoking an unfair trade practices law that allows the US to impose \u200btariffs or take \u2060other retaliatory measures. <\/p>\n
The letter concluded: “It is important to make clear that the EU’s access to the US market is not guaranteed and can be limited should the EU continue to pursue discriminatory acts, policies, and practices in the digital sector.” <\/p>\n
The Commission’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, Henna Virkkunen, said of its fines: “Google must now bring the non-compliance to an end and to refrain from continuing it in the future. <\/p>\n
“Today’s decisions send a clear message: we will not hesitate to use our tools to safeguard business and innovation opportunities opened up by the Digital Markets Act.” <\/p>\n
Google’s president of global affairs, Kent Walker, criticised the fine as “product degradation driven by a small group of self-serving complainants” that will have a negative impact on European businesses and consumers. <\/p>\n
He said the DMA forces Google “to strip away real-time search features Europeans love – like instant pricing and direct availability for hotels, flights, and restaurants – and dismantle safety protections on Google Play.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union (EU) has imposed another big fine on a US tech giant in defiance of warnings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1106634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[302026,32,2000,299,5187,2557,867,3597,64162,26945],"class_list":["post-1106633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-competition-laws","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-google","tag-google-play","tag-google-search","tag-the-european-union"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}