Google Concessions Sought by EU to Rescue Antitrust Pact
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European Union regulators are “trying to extract” more concessions from Google Inc. after hostility to plans to settle a four-year antitrust probe, according to the bloc’s competition chief.
The EU got “very, very negative” feedback to the proposed pact from companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Expedia Inc., that asked the EU to examine allegations that Google discriminates against rivals in search results, Joaquin Almunia said in a Bloomberg TV interview in Cernobbio, Italy on Sept. 6.