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Europe’s top court upheld the EU’s €4.1 billion antitrust penalty against Google for abusing Android to promote its own apps, rejecting Google’s appeal and confirming the revised amount from €4.34B in 2022. Google says Android remains open, while the EU continues Big Tech scrutiny under the Digital Markets Act, including recent action in its ad tech business.
The European Court of Justice ruled that Hungary’s 2021 anti-LGBTQ law breaches EU law on multiple levels, infringing the rights of transgender and non-heterosexual people and violating EU values of dignity, equality, and minority protections. The ruling, described as a landmark, stems from a case brought by the European Commission alongside 16 member states and the European Parliament, and it could pressure Hungary as it faces stalled EU funds under the new administration of Peter Magyar.
EU lawmakers narrowly voted to refer the EU-Mercosur free-trade pact to the European Court of Justice for a legality ruling, delaying ratification for months; the agreement, signed recently, aims to eliminate most tariffs between the EU and Mercosur members and could be provisionally applied while the court reviews it.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Hungary violated EU laws by making it harder for asylum-seekers to apply for protection. The court found that Hungary's requirement for asylum-seekers to first travel to the Hungarian embassies in Serbia or Ukraine to apply for a travel permit breached the bloc's laws and migrants' rights. The judges also found that the regulation, introduced during the pandemic, was not an effective measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.