By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google on Tuesday made a last ditch effort at Europe's top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro ...
By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG - Alphabet's Google on Tuesday made a last ditch effort at Europe's top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro EU antitrust fine imposed for marketBy Foo Yun Chee
Google turned to the Court of Justice of the European Union after the General Court in 2021 threw out its challenge to the fine levied by EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager in 2017. Google lawyer Thomas Graf said the European Commission had failed to show that the company's different treatment of rivals was abusive and that different treatment alone was not anti-competitive.
"Qualifying every different treatment, and in particular different treatment of first party and third party businesses, as abusive would undermine competition. It would impair the ability and incentives of companies to compete and innovate," Graf said.
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