EU Parliament's resolution calls for breakup of Google
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The European Commission will have the last say on the final decision regarding a breakup of Google in Europe. The US search engine has 90 percent of search engine traffic in Europe, thus warranting antitrust action.
Europe's digital sector is dominated by US companies and politicians would like to give local firms a chance instead, wrote the Wall Street Journal. EU privacy regulators want to widen right-to-be forgotten rules to all websites connected to search engines.
Anne Sander, a French member of the center-right EPP party grouping even went as far as to describe Europe "as a colony of the new digital world."
"We shouldn’t look for a scapegoat to explain our weaknesses," said Michal Boni, an EPP lawmaker from Poland.