Press releases

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) regrets the announcements made by the US Administration on February 21 to investigate and threaten trade retaliation for European legislation that safeguards European consumers and ensures the openness and contestability of its digital markets.

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.