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US tech firms adding lobby strength as EU gets tough
Google is among the biggest spenders with a budget of 4.25-4.50 million euros in 2015
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Fri, Sep 9, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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US tech giants Google and Facebook are among multinationals spending more in Brussels as the European Commission eyes new business regulation after last week handing Apple a 13 billion euro (S$19.8 billion) tax demand.
A new annual filing by Google to the European Union's (EU) Transparency Register showed it spent roughly 15-20 per cent more on lobbying EU officials and lawmakers last year than in 2014, itself some three times as much as in the year before that.
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