Google Wins Fight Over €1.5 Billion EU Fine for Ads Abuse
- General Court says EU regulators made mistakes in AdSense case
- Wednesday’s ruling can be appealed at bloc’s highest court
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Google won a court fight with the European Union over a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) fine for thwarting competition for online ads, partly making up for last week’s crushing defeat in a separate judgment for abusing its monopoly powers.
Judges at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg backed the Alphabet Inc. unit’s challenge to a fine doled out in 2019, saying regulators were mostly correct in their findings but made key mistakes in their probe linked to the duration of the alleged wrongdoing.