Breakup Google: EU Parliament now in favour of splitting search engine from other services
European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators to break up Google, the latest setback for the world’s most popular Internet search engine. They wrote to the Commission asking it to launch a public consultation “to discuss the framework that should be applied to these economic actors, to see if today’s competition rules allow us to target the behaviours of these companies,” said Axelle Lemaire, French state secretary for digital affairs. “Parliament should not be engaging in anti-Google resolutions, inspired by a heavy lobby of Google competitors or by anti-free market ideology, but ensure fair competition and consumer choice,” said lawmaker Sophie in’t Veld from the Parliament’s ALDE liberal group. Lobbying group Computer & Communications Industry Association, whose members include Google, eBay Facebook, Microsoft and Samsung, said unbundling was an “extreme and unworkable” solution that made no sense in rapidly changing online markets.
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