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Related: About this forumTrump suggests EU out of line in suing U.S. tech firms
Source: Reuters
TECHNOLOGY NEWS JUNE 26, 2019 / 9:14 AM / UPDATED 30 MINUTES AGO
Trump suggests EU out of line in suing U.S. tech firms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested the European Union was out of line in suing U.S. technology companies like Facebook and Alphabet Incs Google, saying legal action against those firms should be the purview of the United States.
She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person Ive ever met, Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. Her office declined to comment.
Europes competition authority has taken a tough stance against Google, handing down three fines totaling more than $9 billion in recent years.
In a 2017 deal with the EU, Google agreed to pay $2.7 billion to resolve claims it unfairly steered business toward its shopping platform. In March, it was fined $1.7 billion in a case focused on illegal practices in search advertising brokering from 2006 to 2016.
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Trump suggests EU out of line in suing U.S. tech firms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested the European Union was out of line in suing U.S. technology companies like Facebook and Alphabet Incs Google, saying legal action against those firms should be the purview of the United States.
She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person Ive ever met, Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. Her office declined to comment.
Europes competition authority has taken a tough stance against Google, handing down three fines totaling more than $9 billion in recent years.
In a 2017 deal with the EU, Google agreed to pay $2.7 billion to resolve claims it unfairly steered business toward its shopping platform. In March, it was fined $1.7 billion in a case focused on illegal practices in search advertising brokering from 2006 to 2016.
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Trump suggests EU out of line in suing U.S. tech firms (Original Post)
Eugene
Jun 2019
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. What a clueless Bunch of Idiots.
Keep it up Little Hands,the world can not wait till you are in a cage.
elleng
(130,834 posts)2. I guess he's not into the global economy!!!
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)3. "She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met"
Margrethe Vestager was in 2014 part of a Danish government, which ordered Danish troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to support the United States.