In Europe, there are inconspicuous countries whose governments can be called real enemies of large corporations, especially technological, writes CNBC. Among them, Italy is most distinguished.
In recent months, the Italian authorities immediately left several fines on major technological companies. The latter was a fine for 1.1 billion euros against Amazon for violations of antitrust laws. The local regulator considered that the online giant motivated the sellers to use their logistic service to deliver goods to customers.
Similar solutions allow you to call Italy by the country with the most stringent attitude to technological companies in Europe. Especially often fines began to appoint last year. More often than other penalties were exposed to Google and Meta (Holding, owning the social network Facebook).
Analysts explain the intensification of national authorities with concerns due to the slowness of antitrust investigations in the pan-European level. Consideration of one of this case may take several months. Similar trends, even if not so obvious, occur in other countries of the European Union. In particular, in Germany and France.
In recent months, several major investigations in relation to technological companies were carried out in Russia. Booking.com booking service has undergone a turning fine by 1.3 billion rubles for the practice of coercion hotels to the price of third-party resources is not lower than on Booking.com.
In December, the court on the claim of Roskomnadzor recited from Meta and Google 1.9 billion and 7.2 billion rubles, respectively, for a repeat failure to remove prohibited content in Russia.