The EU doesn't have any equivalent companies. Out of the highest 50 grossing companies in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...) the only ones in the EU are Lidl's parent company, a handful automakers, and one French oil conglomerate. Grocery has practically no margin, the big European auto makers are all declining rapidly, and the EU already does everything it can to make existence impossible for oil conglomerates.
Do you take fights with massive corporations personally?
Especially given that Google has been targeted by the US government too (although the shots have mostly missed - like the EU antitrust against Microsoft).
The EU doesn't have any equivalent companies. Out of the highest 50 grossing companies in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...) the only ones in the EU are Lidl's parent company, a handful automakers, and one French oil conglomerate. Grocery has practically no margin, the big European auto makers are all declining rapidly, and the EU already does everything it can to make existence impossible for oil conglomerates.
Yeah they'd have to spread the $5B fine across a bunch of EU companies
Do you take fights with massive corporations personally?
Especially given that Google has been targeted by the US government too (although the shots have mostly missed - like the EU antitrust against Microsoft).
What is invalid about the claims, and how is the fine not appropriate given the legal framework Google agreed to work in within the EU?
The US should have fewer scummy companies.
Do note that the US also famously brought a recent antitrust case against Google.
The evidence here is that Google is the one acting badly and being punished in accordance, by both the EU and the US.
Unless of course literally everyone in the world is wrong except you.
Trump said that (unsurprisingly, he did say something along those lines)