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Does Europe have the power to break up Google?

This article is about the European Commission is set to clash with the members of the European Parliament over whether Google's search engine should be separated from the rest of the company as the EC re-open their anti-trust case against the US search giant. 

• Google could face a “statement of objections” - the formal path towards a fine that could equate to 10% of the company’s global revenue, or about $6bn (£3.7bn).
• “It is a very bad signal,” Mario Mariniello, a former antitrust official who works for the Bruegel thinktank told the Wall Street Journal. “Politicisation is now getting to an extreme.”

I find this article very interesting as it shows how big of an institution Google is and that the EC do not trust the large US media giant and are preparing strategies to separate the search engine from the rest of the company. Also, this debate currently has the EC and the Parliament set to clash, and the former antitrust official is also fearing that 'politicisation is getting to an extreme.'.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/26/does-europe-have-the-power-to-break-up-google