Under the Group’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU once again urges to expand its investigation into Google.
Major goals of EU flagship competition reform – Effective last spring – It is to illuminate the digital competitive environment by forcing platform giants to deal with competitors and users. But alternative search engines Duckduckgo and Seznam.cz, as well as a small number of regional consumers and civil society groups, are accusing Google of violating the rules. exist Open letter Speech Teresa Ribera and Henna VirkkunenThey urged the group to apply DMA to Google “fully”
DuckDuckgo has been complaining about Google’s DMA selection screen implementation and its methods of sharing clicks and querying search data are non-compliant Last fall. But the EU has Open Detection on Googlethe investigation is related to other aspects of the DMA – therefore, an increase in oversight was made to Brussels. An EU spokesman confirmed that it had received the letter and told us it would reply in due course.
The timing of the letter looks noteworthy, as a positive Trump administration also puts huge pressure in the opposite direction, which claims that regulations such as EU regulations unfairly select U.S. companies. So if the Commission proposes DMA enforcement, there is now a clear threat that retaliatory tariffs can comply with any sanctions against large U.S. technology.
