How many fines has Google received in Europe?

About €9.5 billion on the Brussels side, €875 million on the French side. Since 2017, penalties against Google have been falling with metronomic regularity. I’ve put together the complete timeline, every fine dated and sourced, so you can quote it without digging through ten press releases.

The timeline of fines

Date	Authority	Amount	Grounds
June 2017	European Commission	€2.42 billion	Self-preferencing of the Google Shopping comparison service
July 2018	European Commission	€4.34 billion	Abuse of Android’s dominant position
January 2019	CNIL	€50 million	Lack of transparency and advertising consent (GDPR)
March 2019	European Commission	€1.49 billion	AdSense advertising exclusivity clauses (annulled in 2024)
December 2020	CNIL	€100 million	Cookies placed without consent on google.fr
December 2021	CNIL	€150 million	Refusing cookies more complicated than accepting them
March 2024	Autorité de la concurrence	€250 million	Failure to honor commitments on press neighboring rights
September 2025	CNIL	€325 million	Ads between Gmail emails without consent
September 2025	European Commission	€2.95 billion	Abuse of dominant position in online advertising (AdX)

Recap: Blog du Modérateur (2026), detailed sources at the end of the page.

Brussels: about €9.5 billion for abuse of dominant position

Three competition fines stand today. Google Shopping, €2.42 billion in 2017, definitively confirmed by the EU Court of Justice in September 2024. Android, €4.34 billion in 2018, reduced to €4.125 billion by the EU General Court in September 2022, then confirmed by the Court of Justice on July 2, 2026 (euronews). And online advertising with AdX, €2.95 billion in September 2025.

Add it up: about €9.5 billion confirmed or standing. A fourth fine is missing from the total, and for good reason. The AdSense one, €1.49 billion issued in March 2019, was annulled by the European courts in 2024. I leave it in the table for the record, but I take it out of the count: not every penalty survives the appeals.

The CNIL: €625 million in France

France has its own front, the privacy one. Four fines in six years, and the amounts climb every time. €50 million in January 2019 for lack of transparency and advertising consent. €100 million in December 2020 for cookies placed without agreement on google.fr. €150 million a year later, because refusing cookies remained more complicated than accepting them.

Then the record: €325 million in September 2025, for ads slipped between Gmail emails without consent and trackers activated from account creation. It’s the heaviest fine the CNIL has ever issued (Haas Avocats, September 2025). CNIL total: €625 million. And France has a third front, the competition one: €250 million imposed by the Autorité de la concurrence in March 2024, for failing to honor commitments on press neighboring rights.

The next one is already announced

Is Google done paying? Far from certain. As of July 8, 2026, the European Commission is preparing a record fine under the DMA, the Digital Markets Act, for self-preferencing in its search engine. It’s expected before the August 2026 recess and would exceed the €500 million imposed on Apple and the €200 million imposed on Meta (ppc.land, 2026). It hasn’t landed yet: I mention it as announced, nothing more.

What these fines change for you

What does this timeline tell, put end to end? One simple thing: Google’s business model rests on exploiting attention and personal information, and Europe penalizes it regularly. When a company pays €9.5 billion and carries on as before, it’s because the system earns more than it costs.

Then there’s what those billions don’t do. They don’t empty your history, they don’t change your mailbox, they don’t reduce the dependence measured among the French. Regulators correct the market, not your personal situation, and the market shares in France barely move. The exit remains an individual choice: the free diagnostic measures where you stand, the guide to leaving Google draws the plan, and the barometer shows where the others stand.

Sources

• Blog du Modérateur, recap of Google’s fines in Europe, 2026.
• euronews, the EU Court of Justice rejects Google’s appeal against the €4.1 billion Android fine, July 2, 2026.
• Haas Avocats, the record €325 million fine imposed on Google by the CNIL, September 2025.
• PPC Land, the record DMA fine expected before the summer recess, 2026.
• Autorité de la concurrence, €250 million penalty on neighboring rights, March 2024.