Abstract
On June 27, 2017, the European Commission, the European Union’s antitrust agency decided to fine Google USD 2.7bn for their abuse of dominance to do with their Google Shopping service. The strangest thing about this fine was not the fact that it happened, it was that the United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Competition Bureau in Canada decided that Google’s conduct not be anticompetitive a few years earlier. Why would these antitrust agencies with similar legislation and goals both come to different conclusions with regards to this case?
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