EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge

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March 5, 2025, 3:39 PM

• •DuckDuckGo and Seznam.cz have written to the EU urging it to fully apply the Digital Markets Act to Google.
• •The EU has already opened an investigation into Google under the DMA, but the letter calls for the probe to be widened.
• •The letter's timing is notable as the EU is also being pressed hard by the Trump administration to back down on the DMA.

The European Union is being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA). DuckDuckGo and Seznam.cz, along with a handful of regional consumer and civil society groups, are accusing Google of flouting the rules.

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