Google is set for close scrutiny of its various operations in the European Union – including its search, shopping, Android and other common practices. Margrethe Vestager, who became the EU’s competition commissioner last year, has cited her organisation’s “high priority” of investigating the company.
Vestager told The Wall Street Journal: “The Google case is about misuse of a dominant position, to promote yourself in a neighboring market not on your merits but because you can”. She added that the EU’s mission here is so broad that “I do not think of it as one Google case but literally as different investigations and different cases.”
Though any decision made due to any of these probes could culminate in a tough court battle against Google, Vestager has emphasized that “the important thing is that people can understand what is going on”.