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UNILATERAL CONDUCT
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)
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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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GOOGLE AND
COMPLIANCE
WITH THE GOOGLE
SHOPPING
DECISION
BY GEERT GOETEYN AND PATRICIA SANCHEZ-CALERO BARCO
