Brussels is to step up the antitrust pressure against Google next month with and a fresh official complaint and a sharpening of its first case against the company, which arose last year.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, is planning to issue two separate “statements of objections” against the company Google for allegedly abusing its market power in online advertising and shopping, according to people familiar with the case.
The advertising charges, covering Google businesses such as AdWords, open a new front in the European Commission’s antitrust battle with the company and cover one of its biggest revenue-generating businesses.