Capitol Hill hit back at EU lawmakers on Tuesday for politicising an antitrust investigation into Google, as tensions rose ahead of a European parliamentary vote calling for the possible break-up the technology group.
In a rare and concerted public intervention on Google’s regulatory travails in Europe, senior US politicians expressed “alarm” over a draft resolution advocating the potential unbundling of search from Google’s other commercial internet services.
The blunt warning that the resolution would endanger trade and investment speaks to long-simmering concern in Washington over Silicon Valley heavyweights falling foul of what they see as overzealous scrutiny from European politicians and regulators, particularly in Germany.