--- title: EU fines Google €890m under Digital Markets Act for... description: The European Commission has fined Google €890 million for violating the Digital Markets Act — its first DMA penalty against the company. The fine is split:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-fines-google-890m-under-digital-markets-act-for-search-and-app-store-violations-75cgfv2ve twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EU fines Google €890m under Digital Markets Act for search and app store violations | daily.dev og:description: The European Commission has fined Google €890 million for violating the Digital Markets Act — its first DMA penalty against the company. The fine is split:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-fines-google-890m-under-digital-markets-act-for-search-and-app-store-violations-75cgfv2ve og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/75cgfv2vE.png og:image:alt: EU fines Google €890m under Digital Markets Act for search and app store violations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EU fines Google €890m under Digital Markets Act for search and app store violations **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The European Commission has fined Google €890 million for violating the Digital Markets Act — its first DMA penalty against the company. The fine is split: €460 million for self-preferencing Google's own shopping, hotel, and flight results in search, and €430 million for Google Play anti-steering rules that prevented app developers from directing users to cheaper off-store purchases. Google has 60 days to comply or face ongoing penalties of up to 5% of Alphabet's daily global turnover. Google has contested the ruling but has already begun testing revised search layouts and updated Play Store terms. Apple and Meta received similar DMA fines earlier in April 2025. The fine adds political tension to US-EU trade negotiations, though EU officials deny any connection. ## Content The European Commission handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty last week: €890 million split between €460 million for search self-preferencing and €430 million for blocking app developers from steering users to cheaper off-store purchases. Google has 60 days to fix both or face ongoing penalties up to 5% of Alphabet's daily global turnover. The fine itself is well below the DMA's 10% annual revenue ceiling, so in isolation it's a rounding error for a company Alphabet's size. The more interesting story is what happens next. Under EU competition law, a Commission infringement finding effectively settles the liability question. Rivals don't have to re-litigate whether Google broke the rules — they just argue about how much they're owed. That's a significant procedural gift, and European competitors are already cashing it in. Idealo won €465 million in Berlin. PriceRunner got roughly $1.97 billion in Stockholm. Italy's Moltiply is pursuing €2.97 billion. Dutch claimants are seeking over $1 billion. The fine is the starting gun, not the finish line. Google is trying to limit the blast radius. In UK tribunal proceedings, it's arguing the DMA ruling rests on a different legal framework than traditional competition law and shouldn't be used to establish liability there. That fight matters: if the UK tribunal accepts the DMA finding as binding, it opens the door to a wave of follow-on claims across jurisdictions that weren't part of the original EU process. There's also a political dimension that's hard to ignore. The Trump administration has been framing EU digital regulation as a targeted campaign against American tech companies, and this fine lands right in the middle of active US-EU trade tensions. Google called the ruling unfair. It's also quietly testing revised search layouts and altered Play steering terms — the kind of compliance theater that suggests it's more worried about the ongoing 5% daily penalties than the headline number. Apple and Meta both took DMA fines earlier in April 2025. Google also has a €2.95 billion adtech fine and a lost €4.1 billion Android appeal sitting on the books. At some point the cumulative number stops being background noise. ## Questions this post answers ### How much was Google fined under the EU Digital Markets Act and what was it for? Google was fined €890 million by the European Commission under the Digital Markets Act: €460 million for self-preferencing its own services in search results, and €430 million for blocking app developers from steering users toward cheaper off-store purchases. Google has 60 days to fix both practices or face ongoing penalties of up to 5% of Alphabet's daily global turnover. _daily.dev keeps developers tracking platform compliance rules current as app store policies keep shifting under regulatory pressure._ ### Why does an EU Digital Markets Act infringement finding matter for follow-on lawsuits against Google? Under EU competition law, a Commission infringement finding effectively settles the liability question, so rivals suing Google don't need to re-prove wrongdoing, only argue damages. This has already produced large payouts: Idealo won €465 million in Berlin, PriceRunner secured roughly $1.97 billion in Stockholm, Italy's Moltiply is pursuing €2.97 billion, and Dutch claimants are seeking over $1 billion. _anyone weighing platform and antitrust risk can follow how these rulings cascade into new claims via daily.dev._ ### What other EU antitrust penalties is Google currently facing besides the DMA fine? Beyond the €890 million DMA fine, Google carries a separate €2.95 billion adtech fine and a lost €4.1 billion Android antitrust appeal. Apple and Meta also received their own DMA fines earlier in April 2025, indicating a broader pattern of EU enforcement against major US tech platforms. _developers building on major platforms can track the growing list of antitrust rulings shaping them through daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fabianletsch** · 2 upvotes > Trump does whatever Trump wants to do. They are breaking eu law and created an oligopoly. European competition literally is close to impossible anymore with many big providers thanks to how american products, especially google and apple products are built. They deserve these fines. But more importantly they absolutely have to change their behavior. > > > Money is literally extracted out of europe by breaking european law and trump wants to protect that. > > > The guys creating this reacting like "Huh, what does politics have to do with this? They broke the law and we fined them." Is absolutely the... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Google faces high triple-digit million euro EU fine before summer, Handelsblatt reports](https://daily.dev/posts/google-faces-high-triple-digit-million-euro-eu-fine-before-summer-handelsblatt-reports-oe1l2wutc) · The Next Web · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#app-store](https://daily.dev/tags/app-store), [#google-play](https://daily.dev/tags/google-play) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/eu-fines-google-890m-under-digital-markets-act-for-search-and-app-store-violations-75cgfv2ve) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"EU fines Google €890m under Digital Markets Act for search and app store violations","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-fines-google-890m-under-digital-markets-act-for-search-and-app-store-violations-75cgfv2ve","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-fines-google-890m-under-digital-markets-act-for-search-and-app-store-violations-75cgfv2ve"},"datePublished":"2026-07-23T11:40:46.361Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:58:33.810Z","description":"The European Commission has fined Google €890 million for violating the Digital Markets Act — its first DMA penalty against the company. 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