Yes, Brussels Really Wants Google to be Broken Up
ICLE Senior Scholar Lazar Radic was quoted in a Politico article on the European Union’s push for a structural breakup of Google’s Adtech operations. Brussels is taking a firmer line on digital market power and points to a widening gap between how regulators in Europe and the United States approach antitrust. Read the full piece here.
While a court-ordered divestiture of a chunk of Google’s ad tech business is conceivable, U.S. judges have shown themselves to be skeptical of structural remedies in recent months, said Lazar Radic, an assistant law professor at IE University in Madrid, who is affiliated with the big tech-friendly International Center for Law and Economics.
“Behavioral alternatives are still on the table,” said Radic, of the U.S. case.