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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11255

18 February 2015
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
EU responds to Barack Obama's criticisms about Google and Facebook

Brussels, 17/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 16 February, the US President, Barack Obama, accused the EU of being commercially-driven in its vigilance of web giants like Facebook and Google, which are currently undergoing investigation by the European Commission for suspected abuse of their dominant position.

In an interview with Re/Code, Barack Obama said: “In defense of Google and Facebook, sometimes the European response here is more commercially-driven than anything else. (…) We...

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