Google is confronting a wave of private antitrust lawsuits across Europe from smaller rivals seeking damages that could total up to $10 billion, following years of regulatory penalties against the tech giant.
A Stockholm court ordered Google in July 2026 to pay roughly $1.97 billion including interest in the PriceRunner case, while Moltiply Group filed a claim in a Milan court seeking $3.34 billion for alleged abuse of market dominance. Czech firm Seznam.cz is seeking over 9 billion crowns in damages tied to Android practices. A Berlin court last November awarded price-comparison site Idealo $528.9 million, the largest antitrust damages ever granted by a German court.
The legal pressure compounds a $1 billion fine the European Commission imposed under the Digital Markets Act for favoring its own services on Google Play. Alphabet, which lost its final appeal in September 2025 against a separate €2.42 billion EU fine dating to 2017, reported negative free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026 for the first time as a public company.