Antitrust

Europe News

Apple and Meta to escape sanctions for failing to meet digital rules

The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply with the legislation by next week's deadline.

19/06/2025

Europe News

EU antitrust fines food delivery giants in landmark cartel case

The investigation marks the first-ever EU antitrust case involving a minority shareholding, as well as the first enforcement of EU competition rules concerning labour markets.

02/06/2025

Tech News

Google's digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly in US ruling

A federal judge in the US ruled that Google holds a monopoly in selling ad technology and ad exchanges that it illegally exploited to make profit.

17/04/2025

Tech News

Google faces €5.8 billion lawsuit in UK for 'overcharging' for search

A class action is demanding Google pay out £5 billion (€5.83 billion) to British companies that have been forced to buy ads on its search engine.

16/04/2025

Tech News

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand in historic antitrust trial

Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook's 2012 acquisition of popular social media app Instagram on the first day of an antitrust trial that could reverse the purchase.

15/04/2025

Travel News

Italy fines Colosseum ticketing agencies for ripping off tourists

Ticketing agencies made it almost impossible to purchase standard-price entry to Italy's most popular tourist attraction.

08/04/2025

Europe News

French regulator fines Apple €150 million over data collection tool

Without directly condemning Apple’s data collection tool, the antitrust regulator has determined that the conditions surrounding its implementation amounted to an abuse of a dominant market position. The decision comes at a time of tension between the US and the EU over the treatment of Big Tech.

31/03/2025

Europe News

Commission warns Alphabet and Apple they're breaking EU digital rules

The Commission has resisted pressure from the Trump administration to shield US tech giants in finding the Google and iPhone owners are breaching the Digital Market Act.

19/03/2025

Europe News

Commission defends EU digital markets rules in the face of US attacks

In a letter seen by Euronews and sent to the US Congress, Vice-presidents Teresa Ribera and Henna Virkkunen defend EU digital legislation, which they claim applies to companies regardless of where they are located. It comes a day after MEPs also wrote to US authorities justifying DMA’s enforcement.

07/03/2025

Europe News

European judges rap Google over access denied to auto app

European court finds Google's lack of interoperability with another company’s app an abuse of dominance even if it did not actually stymie competition on the third-party’s app market.

25/02/2025

Europe News

How to counter Trump's trade war?

President Trump has hit Canada, China and Mexico with threatened tariffs in the last week. The EU is waiting its turn and mulling its potential response.

06/02/2025

Tech News

UK launches competition suit into Google. Who else has done the same?

Euronews Next looks at the different antitrust cases against Google.

23/01/2025

Business

Getty Images announces merger with rival content firm Shutterstock

The union of the two major content firms comes as artificial intelligence is shaking up the image market.

08/01/2025

Tech News

Canada watchdog sues Google over alleged 'anti-competitive' ad conduct

The legal action is over online web advertising, the watchdog said.

29/11/2024

Business

HSBC €31,7 million trader 'chat room' cartel fine upheld by EU court

The European judges dismissed HSBC’s procedural challenge against the cartel fine imposed by the European Commission in 2021.

27/11/2024

Tech News

Consumer report finds Big Tech don't comply with digital market rules

European consumer association BEUC considered that Meta, Apple and Google still have to improve the interoperability of their platform to third party businesses to comply with the Digital Market Act.

14/11/2024

Europe News

EU slaps Meta with €797 million fine

The European Commission slapped a €797, 72 million fine on Facebook’s owner Meta for abusing its dominant position in the market for personal social networks on Thursday, for preferencing its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace.

14/11/2024

Europe News

EU court dismisses banks' appeal in cartel case

The European judges dismissed appeals lodged by Credit Agricole and Credit Suisse against a 2021 Commission decision that exchange of sensitive information between traders was an anticompetitive cartel in the secondary trading market.

07/11/2024

Europe News

US election: What future for global enforcement of Big Tech?

This week's election could prove a turning point for US antitrust enforcement, especially of Big Tech, with ramifications for Europe since the last few years have seen similar approaches adopted on both sides of the Atlantic.

04/11/2024

Europe News

'Corrosive': Commission rejects greater revolving doors transparency

The European Commission says it won’t immediately publish details of the restrictions placed on Henrik Morch, whose move earlier this year from its antitrust department to law firm Paul, Weiss drew protests from EU Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly.

25/09/2024