Trump has criticized Brussels' fine against Google and threatened to retaliate: "It's unfair!"
The European Commission has fined Google for engaging in abusive practices in the advertising technology (adtech) sector, apparently benefiting its services at least since 2014, to the detriment of other competition providers.
Donald Trump, President of the United States.
U.S.President Donald Trump has strongly criticized the fineimposed by the European Commission on the American technology company Google for alleged abusive practices and threatened to retaliate.
"Europe has fined $ 3.5 billion (€2.95 billion) to another large American company, Google, by appropriating funds that would be used for American investment and employment, to which must be added numerous fines and taxes against Google and other technology companies, "Trump said in his message on the social network Truth Social.
"It is unfair and US taxpayers will not tolerate it! As I said, my administration will not allow these discriminatory acts to continue, "the US president added.
He also recalled that Apple had to pay a new fine, but, in his view, "should not have been applied," and has proposed that money be "recovered." "We cannot allow that to be done to America's brilliant and incredible creativity, and if that happens, I will have to initiate a procedure to annul the unfair sanctions imposed on these American taxpayer companies," he said.
In another message, he recalled that Google has already paid billions of dollars . "What madness! The EU must immediately stop this practice against American companies!" he said.
In particular, the European Commission has fined Google for engagingin abusive practices in the advertising technology (adtech) sector since at least 2014, apparently benefiting its services, to the detriment of other suppliers of competitors who also serve 'online' advertisers and publishers.
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