This was reported by AP, as reported by Ukrinform.

“Today, the French competition authority imposed another large fine on Google in a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers for their news,” the statement said. The statement was included.

The anti-monopoly service said it fined Google 250 million euros for failing to fulfill some commitments it had made during the negotiations.

The US tech giant was forced to negotiate with French news publishers after a court upheld the decision in 2020, citing the EU’s 2019 copyright directive.

Google said on its blog that it agreed to pay the penalty.

The company said the penalty was “out of proportion” to the issues raised by the French watchdog and “did not take into account” Google’s efforts to fix the problems.

France has become the first of 27 EU countries to adopt a copyright directive allowing broadcasters and news companies to enter into licensing agreements with online platforms.

The antitrust authority’s decision is the fourth directed against Google for the company’s failure to comply with the EU legal framework, which aims to create “the necessary conditions for balanced negotiations between news agencies, publishers and digital platforms”.

According to Ukrinform’s report, the American company Apple is negotiating with Google about the integration of its most advanced model based on artificial intelligence (AI) called Gemini into its products.