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EU: Renewed momentum in the Google antitrust investigation expected

By  |  March 2, 2015

Ramon Tremosa i Balcells,European parliament’s rapporteur, has has been applying this knowledge to his work on the Google antitrust investigation on parliament’s behalf, reporting on it and keenly observing negotiations between the European commission and Google.

With the changeover in commission, Ramon Tremosa I Balcells believes that there is renewed momentum in the case, and the new European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager will be able to “finish the job soon”. He also hopes that “this spring the commission will have a new approach to this case”.

The case began five years ago, after the commission received complaints that the US tech giant was exploiting its monopoly of the search engine market. The previous European competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia failed to agree a solution with Google.

 

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