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Alphabet\u2019s Google was fined a total of \u20ac890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for violating the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets Act, in a decision that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The European Commission said Thursday that Google had unfairly favoured its own search services and prevented app developers from steering consumers to offers outside its Play Store. The company was fined \u20ac460 million for the alleged search abuses and \u20ac430 million for the Play Store breaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoogle has fallen short of effective compliance with the Digital Markets Act, and today we have taken decisive yet balanced enforcement action sanctioning these breaches,\u201d EU competition chief Teresa Ribera said. \u201cThe best products should succeed because they\u2019re better, not because they\u2019re owned by the company running the search engine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The commission gave the US Big Tech giant 60 days to comply with the Digital Markets Act, or face the threat of future periodic penalties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis implementation of the DMA continues to break everyday products,\u201d Kent Walker, Google\u2019s President of Global Affairs, said. \u201cTo comply, we are having to strip away real-time search features Europeans love \u2013 like instant pricing and direct availability for hotels, flights, and restaurants \u2013 and dismantle safety protections on Google Play.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The latest Google sanction follows penalties of \u20ac500 million and \u20ac200 million against Apple\u00a0and Meta Platforms\u00a0respectively under the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets Act \u2014 a law that lays out a raft guardrails aimed at keeping Big Tech dominance in check.<\/p>\n
The decisions push Google\u2019s EU liabilities to over \u20ac10 billion \u2014 far higher than fines against Apple, Meta and Microsoft Corp.<\/p>\n
But Thursday\u2019s \u20ac890 million fine ranks among Brussels\u2019 smallest against Google. It follows a \u20ac2.95 billion penalty for abuses on Google\u2019s adtech arm last year, a \u20ac4.125 billion Android fine and a \u20ac2.42 billion sanction for crushing shopping search rivals. A \u20ac1.49 billion AdSense levy was annulled by the EU General Court, but is being appealed to the bloc\u2019s highest chamber by EU lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Google\u2019s search dominance in particular has long been where EU regulators have focused their attention. In a 2017 decision that came with a \u20ac2.4 billion fine, the Brussels-based executive alleged the US firm illegally leveraged its search-engine dominance to give a higher ranking to its own product listings, in an escalation that came to be dubbed the Google Shopping case. EU regulators now fear that similar behavior from Google is thwarting its compliance with the DMA.<\/p>\n
The EU punishment comes at a tense moment for EU\u2013US trade relations, with Trump having repeatedly criticised the bloc\u2019s efforts to rein in Silicon Valley giants. When Google was last fined by the EU in September 2025, the US President threatened fresh trade tariffs against the 27-member bloc.<\/p>\n
The EU signed an agreement with Trump one year ago that increased tariffs for most EU exports to 15% while eliminating duties for US industrial goods and some non-sensitive agrifood products. The bloc accepted the deal in order to stabilise economic relations with Trump, who threatened to impose trade measures and to pare back American security commitments.<\/p>\n
The trade deal, which was agreed on a political level in July last year, nearly fell apart after Trump threatened to take over Greenland and after the US Supreme Court dismantled a large part of his new tariff regime. The EU finally ratified the accord last month. The deal is still under pressure, with Trump having threatened to impose tariffs on some EU members including Spain and France.<\/p>\n
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