Why would the EU do that? The EU demands fines, nothing else. If Google wanted to leave the market to not pay them, it would be their job to geoblock every EU IP from using Google services.
However, i suspect if google left europe, another competitor to google (ala, bing?) would immediately swoop in and take all the business. Google would suddenly find itself losing 1/3 or even half of their revenue!
A similar analogy would be like the US blocking their citizens from traveling to North Korea. But then having direct flights from LA to Pyongyang and expecting North Korea to enforce the ban of US citizens at their customs. It’s not their responsibility..
To twist your analogy this is basically like the US deciding not to give Pynongyang aid any more, in which case yeah they might just decide to block US immigration.
We're having this very discussion atop the world wide web which came from CERN.
There's no reason why I should have to sacrifice my privacy so that a few oligarchs can add a few more zeros to their bank accounts.
* https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/meet-europe-top-tech-...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_compa...
I actually hadn't realised Spotify was Swedish! Deezer is French.
Pretty much every high-end car manufacturer.
ARM.
Did you know the modern three-point tractor hitch was invented by an Irishman? Modern motor cars come from Germany. The Web as I mentioned earlier comes from CERN which is a joint European project.
Ericsson, Siemens, Philips.
Airbus is also another joint European cooperative.
Raspberry Pi.
Arduino.
Betfair.
Jetbrains.
Interesting exercise!