It's almost an annual ceremony for the EU/German authorities to go after Deutsche Bank's offices because of Russian money laundering.
EU authorities absolutely go after big European companies.
EU authorities absolutely go after big European companies.
1. no fine. 2. 67.6 million 3. 750 million (partial Siemens in of one over dozen defendants) 4. No last decision/No fine yet 5. No last decision/ No fine yet
Microsoft (7) cases:
1.AT.37792 - 899.00 million 2. AT.39784 - non-fine decision 3. AT.39530 - 561.00 million
Remaining 4 pending cases
Google 7 cases: AT.40099 - 4.34 billion AT.39740 - 2.42 billion (2 non-fine cases) (3 pending cases)
Last one.. BASF - 4 cases: AT.37533 - 66.4 million (partial one of 10 defendants) AT.37512 - fine imposed (partial one of 13 defendants), fine document not found. (2 non-fine cases)
The amounts Microsoft and Google were demanded are in a different stratosphere. Now, you can comment about the choice of the industry I picked.. the heavy hand of Europe Anti-trust seems to be picking pocket of American tech companies a bit more than German bellwethers.
Thanks for the link!
I did not include Meta's 1.2 billion Euro fine. For the sake of brevity.
Now, that you understand, I do my homework, all you have to do this -- give me a European company that was fined Billion Euros for anti-trust. One case.
(not group of companies or European company a defendant among 10 companies being fined).
I could not find one.
Self-deception is not my field of mastery!