Publishers lobby EU to reduce Google’s internet search dominance

Publishers of newspapers and news media across Europe have adopted a resolution to lobby the EU and national governments to reduce Google’s internet search dominance and to reduce Vat on professionally produced news.

The European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA) urges all European governments to recognise fair competition and equal search as essential for a thriving media market. The ENPA believes the latest proposals by Google to settle its competition case with the EU do not go far enough and will allow the search giant continue to abuse its position.

ENPA president Ivar Rusda, said, if the EU were to allow Google to continue to discriminate in terms of how it ranks content, it would be a violation of core European values.