![La Cour de justice de l'Union européenne a confirmé, ce jeudi, l'amende record de 4,1 milliards d'euros infligée à Google en 2018 pour abus de position dominante vis-à-vis Android. [Nicolas TUCAT / AFP]](/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=640,height=640,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/uploads.mongoosehq.com/url/media/151160977/81b0718d3084768c3b694e5a4fe05e9ea20d7a052f771e6541dbf08341903265)
Overview
- The Court of Justice of the European Union rejected Google's appeal on Thursday, confirming a €4.1 billion penalty for requiring device makers to pre-install Google Search and Chrome.
- The fine traces back to a 2018 European Commission finding that Google abused Android's reach to exclude rivals and was reduced from an initial €4.3 billion to €4.1 billion by the EU General Court in 2022.
- The court dismissed all of Google's legal and procedural arguments and followed the June 2025 opinion of Advocate General Juliane Kokott, who had urged rejection of the appeal.
- Google said it has changed commercial agreements to comply with the 2018 decision and warned that further forced remedies could harm security and data protection, while Brussels says separate enforcement actions remain active.
- Brussels is pursuing other antitrust steps that could affect consumers and competitors, including a near-€3 billion ad-market fine and probes into rival AI assistant access and sharing of Search data, which could alter how apps and services work on Android devices.