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With three cases recently closed, Google has been in the
crosshairs of European Union Competition Commissioner Vestager and
her team for the last few years. Google’s fines so far amount
to more than €8.2 billion in total.
Yet this was not the only problem arising from the European
Commission’s (EC) attention. Google has initially struggled
to comply with the remedies the EC imposed in 2017 in its
Google Search (Shopping) decision (Google
Shopping). Eventually, in March 2019, Commissioner Vestager
referred to Google’s initiatives to tackle the EC’s
concerns as positive.
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