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EU's antitrust 'war' on Google and Facebook uses abandoned American playbook

  • Written by Ramsi Woodcock, Professor of Legal Studies, Georgia State University
imageEuropean Union Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has followed an antitrust enforcement strategy pioneered in the U.S.AP Photo/Virginia Mayo

The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that European antitrust regulators have declared war on American tech giants.

On June 27, the European Union imposed a €2.4 billion (US$2.75...

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