Open Markets Institute Europe
Civil-society coalition that led 30-plus organisations protesting von der Leyen's delay of the Google DMA fine.
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Which civil-society group is pressuring the EU on the Google fine delay?
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Led a coalition of 30-plus civil-society groups writing to von der Leyen to express grave concern at the fine delay
European Tech Sovereignty: Google fine stuck on von der Leyen's desk- What is Open Markets Institute Europe and what does it campaign for?
- Open Markets Institute Europe is a Brussels-based non-profit focused on antitrust enforcement and platform regulation. In 2026 it led a Coalition of over 30 civil-society groups pressing the European Commission to issue its delayed DMA fine against Google.Source: Briefing event
- Who led the campaign against the delay of the Google DMA fine?
- Open Markets Institute Europe led a Coalition of more than 30 civil-society organisations that wrote to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in May 2026, demanding the delayed DMA fine against Google be issued.Source: Briefing event
- Why has the EU Google DMA fine been delayed?
- The European Commission's fine was originally scheduled for March 2026. Open Markets Institute Europe and other civil-society groups attribute the delay to a personal intervention by Commission President von der Leyen, suspending DG Competition's enforcement timeline.Source: Briefing event
Background
Open Markets Institute Europe is a Brussels-based competition-policy advocacy organisation, operating as the European branch of the Open Markets Institute (founded in Washington DC in 2017). It focuses on monopoly enforcement, platform regulation and digital-market competition, conducting research and convening civil-society coalitions to press European institutions for stronger antitrust action. Open Markets Institute Europe does not represent corporate clients; it operates on a non-profit model funded by foundations and philanthropic grants. Its policy positions consistently favour aggressive enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and structural remedies over behavioural conditions in competition cases.
In May 2026 Open Markets Institute Europe led a Coalition of more than 30 civil-society organisations in writing to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, expressing grave concern at the prolonged delay to the European Commission's DMA fine against Google for search self-preferencing. The fine had originally been scheduled for March 2026; the hold-up was attributed by the Coalition letter to von der Leyen's personal intervention, shifting political accountability from the DG Competition case team to her office . The campaign placed the delay alongside CAIDA's serial deferrals as evidence of political paralysis in EU tech enforcement at a moment when trade pressure from Washington was intensifying.
