The American tech giant has been ordered to pay €1.7 billion to Swedish firm Klarna for favoring its own price comparison service. This marks the latest episode in a series of sanctions against Google in Europe for abuse of dominant market position, writes Le Monde columnist Isabelle Chaperon.


Oh. I thought “Europe” meant European governments and similar institutions.
Still very bad.
I meant Europe as a region, as defined by Microsoft’s internal division.
But yeah, also governments are paying crazy money for that. And that ARE taxpayers money… 😐