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PYMNTS · United States · Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna/PriceRunner $1.97bn in price-comparison antitrust case
Places the ruling in the context of the EU's wider 2026 digital enforcement wave: Apple fined 500 million euros under the DMA, Meta 200 million euros, Google 2.95 billion euros in its ad-tech case, and X 120 million euros under the DSA. Notes that national courts across EU member states are increasingly acting on Commission findings to award private damages, creating a secondary layer of antitrust liability beyond EU regulatory fines.
“Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.97 billion to Klarna's PriceRunner in a landmark private damages action grounded in the EU's 2017 antitrust ruling.”