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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12218

21 March 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 27
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Competition
Commission fines Google €1.49 billion
Brussels, 20/03/2019 (Agence Europe)

The European Commission decided on Wednesday 20 March to impose a fine of €1.494 billion on US giant Google for violating EU competition rules in the search adverts market. 

You can't have two without three. After an initial fine of €2.42 billion in June 2017 in the Google Shopping case (see EUROPE B11817A1) and a record €4.34 billion in the Android case in July 2018 (see EUROPE B12065A1), the US giant is again facing the onus of paying a significant sum, this time...

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
UNITED KINGDOM: Twenty-Seven are in principle in favour of postponing Brexit but have some conditions
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: leaders will discuss EU-Beijing relations in preparation for summit on 9 April
TRADE: France and Germany looking for a sound common timetable in transatlantic trade agenda
INTERNAL MARKET: Twenty-Eight in favour of a deeper single market protected against unfair external competition
CLIMATE: EU leaders to guide preparation of a long-term strategy for EU's transition to climate neutrality
ECONOMY: European leaders will approve draft socio-economic policy recommendation for euro area
EEA: unprecedented summit of European Economic Area countries
INSTITUTIONAL
EPP: EPP decides to suspend Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party with immediate effect
EP2019: Mrs Vestager and Mrs Bulc and Mr Verhofstadt in ALDE Europe team
TRANSPARENCY: Greens/EFA Group of European Parliament laments lack of progress on Members' general expenditure allowances
DEMOCRACY: Commission urges platforms to be more ambitious in terms of combating disinformation
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: Giuseppe Conte recommends introduction of a European minimum wage
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion
ECONOMY: European Parliament/Council of the EU agreement on InvestEU 2021-2027 programme
SECTORAL POLICIES
RESEARCH: agreement between European Parliament and Council of the EU on Horizon Europe 2021-2027 Framework Programme
JUSTICE: kick-off of European Parliament/Council of the EU negotiations on selection of Head of European Public Prosecutor's Office
TRANSPORT: ‘mobility’ package I should be voted on at next European Parliament plenary session
AGRICULTURE: Greens/EFA Group in European Parliament opposes what will be voted on post-2020 CAP in April
ENERGY: €750 million of European funds for clean energy infrastructure
ENERGY UNION: EU awards €323 million grant to Baltic synchronisation project at policy conference on interconnected energy grids
EXTERNAL ACTION
SOUTHERN AFRICA: ACP and EU members welcome €3.5 million aid from EU for victims of Cyclone Idai
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: EU calls for Karadžić life sentence to be respected
NEWS BRIEFS
ENERGY: European Parliamentary Committee endorses new directive for internal market in natural gas
FINANCE: Council of the EU approves five interinstitutional agreements within framework of capital-markets union
INDUSTRY: European employers publish their recommendations to strengthen competitiveness of economy
SOCIAL: trade unions welcome inter-institutional agreement on regulation on ‘coordination of social security systems’
UKRAINE: EU launches new air safety project