Alphabet's Google on Tuesday made a last ditch effort at Europe's top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro ($2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine imposed for market abuse related to its shopping service, saying that regulators failed to show that its practices were anti-competitive. Google turned to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) after the General Court in 2021 threw out its challenge to the fine levied by EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager in 2017. It was the first of three penalties for anti-competitive practices that have cost Google 8.25 billion euros in total in the last decade.
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stated, in an interview given to the Austrian daily Der Standard at the end of last week, that the Government will appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union a new negative vote by Austria regarding Romania's accession to the Schengen area.
Google: The ruling from the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) potentially hands antitrust authorities more leeway in Big Tech probes.
Case examined question if certain processing activities were effectively justified by contract as legal ground in context of a provision of online social media.