Google Suffers Setback in Fight Over EU’s €4.1 Billion Fine

The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Google’s fight against a record €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine suffered a blow after an adviser to the bloc’s top court said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android’s market power.

Advocate General Juliane Kokott of the EU’s Court of Justice said in a non-binding opinion that Google’s appeal should fail because the legal arguments put forward by the US tech giant fell short.