Economics
German Antitrust Adviser Says Amazon Might Face Restrictions
- Amazon warned against possible sanctions for bundling: WamS
- Company may face antitrust issue with EU similar to Google’s
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Amazon.com Inc. is combining some offerings in a way similar to Alphabet Inc.’s Google and could face sanctions in order to safeguard competition rules, the chairman of Germany’s Monopolies Commission Achim Wambach told Welt am Sonntag in an interview.
“One could think in the direction of an unbundling on a product level at Amazon,” Wambach said. “Amazon Prime connects different services as well,” he said, referring to the company’s membership program. Germany’s Monopolies Commission is an expert panel that advises the country’s federal government.