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EU: Google’s Schmidt to meet with Vestager on probe

By  |  February 24, 2015

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt will meet European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager next week to discuss a four-year-old probe into the company’s search engine after efforts to settle the case stalled, according to Bloomberg on Tuesday.

It’s Vestager’s first meeting in the case with Google executives since she took office in November, said the people, who asked not to be identified because details of the Brussels talks aren’t public.

The world’s biggest search engine has come under mounting pressure in Europe over competition and privacy issues in recent months. EU lawmakers last year called for regulators to consider splitting up the company if they can’t wrap up the antitrust probe.

 

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