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Google seeks to quell French press antitrust concerns with raft of commitments

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 15 Dec 2021 06:57
  • 15 Dec 2021 06:57
Google has made commitments in a bid to end an acrimonious French antitrust inquiry over payments to press publishers for indexing their articles in search results.
It is the latest twist in a global debate over how to rebalance Google's fractured relations with the media industry, which spans legislation in

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


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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