Google to appeal French order to pay €20m of damages to publisher Rossel
By Jean Comte ( December 10, 2025, 09:15 GMT | Insight) -- Google will appeal a Monday ruling by a French business court that ordered the tech company to give €20 million in damages to publisher Rossel. The plaintiff had initially requested more than €800 million, but judges said it failed to prove why this amount was due to Google's abuse of dominance on the market for ad servers for website publishers.Google will appeal a ruling delivered on Monday by the Paris Business Tribunal, which orderedthe company to give €20 million ($23 million) in damages to newspaper publisher Rossel (see here)....
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