Terry Schultz

European Commission spokesperson Ariana Podesta says this could mean Google is taking unfair advantage of its dominant position as a search engine.

By imposing unfair terms to the publishers of this content or by granting itself some privileged access to the information.

Google has already rejected the complaint by independent publishers, which led to the investigation.

Last month, the commission opened an antitrust probe into indications Google is unfairly demoting news and publishing websites in search results when they include content from commercial partners.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

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European Council President Antonio Costa says the U.S.

national security strategy makes clear the U.S.

no longer believes in multilateralism or an international order.

He says it's natural to have different values, but that the U.S.

and EU are still allies.

And so Washington should not be praising what the strategy calls patriotic European parties, interpreted as the far right.

Allies do not threaten to interfere in the lives and the domestic political choices of their allies, Costa said.

Costa also took aim at U.S.

criticism of Europe's digital regulation, saying if power is concentrated in what he called tech oligarchs, that is a limit on freedom of information.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

President Zelensky will hold a previously unannounced meeting with the top leaders of both the European Union and NATO at the home of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen will be there.

One of her main priorities at the moment is convincing the Belgian Prime Minister to allow the use of more than $100 billion worth of Russian money immobilized in a Belgium-based financial institution

as collateral for a loan to Ukraine.