Antitrust Antitrust

Google’s News Showcase prompts wide German antitrust probe in footsteps of France, Australia

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 04 Jun 2021 04:42
  • 04 Jun 2021 04:42
Google's fraught relationship with the news industry is once again at the center of an antitrust inquiry after Germany's competition regulator said today it was scrutinizing its News Showcase, a service that repackages articles licensed from publishers.
Investigators will assess whether Google's plans to show its own service in search results would

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Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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