Press releases

The EU Commission is publishing today its economic vision for the next five years - dubbed the ‘Competitiveness Compass’ - to help the European Union regain its competitiveness worldwide. BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, calls on the EU to ensure that European industry delivers safe, sustainable and affordable products to consumers, which will allow the European economy to fill the growth gap with powers like the United States and China.

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) represented the interests of consumers at a hearing today at the Court of Justice of the European Union to defend the 2022 General Court ruling (known as the Google Android case) which found that Google had broken European competition law.

BEUC, representing consumer groups in 31 European countries, welcomes the EU Court of Justice September 10 ruling in the Google Shopping case. The Court ruling confirmed that Google broke EU antitrust rules because it abused its market dominance as a search engine by unfairly promoting its own comparison shopping service.

The much-anticipated report from former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, laying out how to boost EU industry’s competitiveness on the global stage, contains positive signals on energy, and trade, but raises questions on competition which could end up hurting European consumers’ pockets.