After three years of wrangling with Google over its alleged anticompetitive business practices, the EU has suggested there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. “We have reached a key moment in this case,” EC Vice President Joaquin Almunia, who is responsible for competition policy, said at a Parliament hearing Tuesday. Almunia had serious doubts that a settlement could be reached with Google after stakeholders roundly rejected the company’s initial proposal in a market test last spring, he confessed, but now he is more optimistic.
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Google's New EU Deal - Same as the Old Deal?
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 3, 2013 09:04 AMAfter three years of wrangling with Google over its alleged anticompetitive business practices, the EU has suggested there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. “We have reached a key moment in this case,” EC Vice President Joaquin Almunia, who is responsible for competition policy, said at a Parliament hearing Tuesday. Almunia had serious doubts that a settlement could be reached with Google after stakeholders roundly rejected the company’s initial proposal in a market test last spring, he confessed, but now he is more optimistic.