{"slug": "trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn", "title": "Trump threatens EU will pay ‘big price’ after Brussels fines Google $1bn", "summary": "U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the European Union with steep tariffs and a trade investigation after the European Commission fined Google $1 billion for violating the Digital Markets Act by favoring its own services in search results and restricting app developers. Trump called the penalties \"highly unethical\" and said the EU \"will pay a very big price,\" reigniting trade tensions between Washington and Brussels.", "body_md": "# Trump threatens EU will pay ‘big price’ after Brussels fines Google $1bn\n\n*EU accuses US tech giant of favouring its own services in search results, as Trump lashes out against bloc.*\n\nUnited States President Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with steep tariffs and a new trade investigation, saying that the bloc “will pay a very big price” after Brussels fined [Google $1bn over antitrust violations](/news/2026/7/23/eu-hits-google-with-new-1bn-fine-saying-it-broke-digital-antitrust-rules).\n\nTrump called penalties against Google and other US tech firms “highly unethical”, saying on Friday that the US “is not a ‘PIGGYBANK’ for Europe”.\n\n## Recommended Stories\n\nlist of 3 items- list 1 of 3\n[Trump says ‘it’s time’ for Saudi Arabia to normalise ties with Israel](/news/2026/7/24/trump-says-its-time-for-saudi-arabia-to-normalise-ties-with-israel) - list 2 of 3\n[Can AI systems make moral decisions in war?](/news/2026/7/21/can-ai-systems-make-moral-decisions-in-war) - list 3 of 3\n[EU hits Google with new $1bn fine, saying it broke digital antitrust rules](/news/2026/7/23/eu-hits-google-with-new-1bn-fine-saying-it-broke-digital-antitrust-rules)\n\n“This illegal and highly discriminatory practice started at these high levels during the first year of the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, but it’s not going to continue during the Trump Administration,” he wrote in a social media post.\n\nThe [European Commission](/tag/european-union/) had imposed the fine on Thursday, ruling that Google had breached the bloc’s Digital Markets Act by favouring its own services in search results and restricting app developers from directing users elsewhere.\n\nThe penalty adds renewed strain to US-EU relations at a moment when trade tensions between Washington and Brussels had appeared to ease.\n\nRegulators said Google gave preferential placement to its own shopping, travel and other services over rival offerings, and blocked app developers from steering customers towards deals outside its Play Store.\n\nThe EU Commission split the penalty roughly in half between the two breaches, giving Google 60 days to change its practices or face periodic fines of up to 5 percent of its average daily turnover.\n\nTeresa Ribera, the commission’s executive vice president overseeing competition policy, on Thursday called the action “decisive yet balanced”, arguing that products should succeed on merit rather than ownership.\n\nKent Walker, a Google executive, described the ruling as “product degradation” driven by a small number of complainants, insisting that regulation should improve products rather than weaken them.\n\nThe EU has fined Google repeatedly since 2017, including a [$4.5bn penalty](/news/2026/7/23/eu-hits-google-with-new-1bn-fine-saying-it-broke-digital-antitrust-rules) over its Android operating system, upheld on appeal this month, and a [$3.4bn fine last year](/news/2025/9/5/eu-slaps-3-45-billion-fine-on-google-for-unfair-ad-practices) targeting its advertising business.\n\nThe latest penalty also reignites friction with Washington.\n\nJamieson Greer, the US trade representative, warned this week that Brussels’s approach towards American tech firms risks unravelling a [trade deal struck](/economy/2025/7/28/eu-and-us-announce-deal-a-breakdown-of-the-trade-agreement) in Turnberry, Scotland, last year that capped US tariffs on European goods.\n\nEU officials have pushed back, insisting they answer to their own laws rather than outside pressure.\n\nTrump threatened to launch a probe under Section 301, a US tool for probing unfair trade practices, but the move could take months to produce results, though tariffs could follow far sooner.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn", "canonical_source": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/25/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn?traffic_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-07-25 01:09:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-25 01:35:21.997071+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "European Union", "Google", "European Commission", "Teresa Ribera", "Kent Walker", "Jamieson Greer"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn.jsonld"}}