The European Union antitrust chief will soon reach a decision in a probe into Google that could have far-reaching implications for the company, said Guenther Oettinger, European commissioner for the digital economy.
The European Commission has been conduction a long-running competition probe against Google, which has been accused of favoring its own services in its search results. Google has denied any anticompetitive behaviour.
“Commissioner Margrethe Vestager in charge of competition will decide which steps she wants to take,” said Mr. Oettinger in an interview to be published in German paper Welt am Sonntag. “But I think that they will be far-reaching.”
There have been “additional, well-founded complaints from European companies” and the antitrust chief will very soon make her decision, he said.
Ms. Vestager has sent two rounds of questionnaires to market participants since taking office in November to update her agency’s case file.
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