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Germany’s culture minister said Google should be broken up, in remarks released Thursday that risk the ire of US President Donald Trump at a time of transatlantic trade tensions.
Speaking on the Friday edition of Politico’s Berlin Playbook Podcast, Wolfram Weimer accused Google of “paying next to no tax” and of “giving nothing back to society”.
“We need to address Google on all fronts,” he said. “Best of all would be to break it up.”
The comments come after the European Commission this month fined Google 2.95 billion euros ($3.47 billion) for abusing…
