European Official Urges Google to Offer Greater Concessions in Antitrust Inquiry

Günther Oettinger, the European Union’s digital economy commissioner, called on Google to offer more concessions in a long-standing antitrust investigation that the company is facing in the European Union.

Oettinger said that while he respected what Google’s founders had achieved, the company must honor European rules over how it operates across the 28-member bloc. “Google has to bring more offers to us,” Oettinger said, when questioned about Europe’s continuing antitrust investigation. “Google must be ready for a convincing compromise.” Oettinger said that the European Commission wanted to find a resolution to the lengthy Google antitrust case by mid-2015. His colleague, Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s new competition commissioner, is leading the case.