It's always not good between Google and EU these days. Google has to now face antitrust charges from EU stating that it is violating competition by unfairly favoring it's services (maps and search) on Android devices over it's rivals.
Google's products such as maps, mail, search comes pre - installed in devices running Android and device manufacturers have to agree with this if they want to get a licence to the software. The European Union had been studying this and thus here comes the result. If any of these things is unbundled from the agreement with the manufacturers in Europe, it would be a major setback for Google.
Google also faces antitrust charges on another front. European Authorities had charged Google for unfairly dominating the market position to favor it's services and there are chances that it would be fined upto $7 billion.
The Federal Trade Commission, Washington is also probing on whether Google broke the U.S. antitrust laws to boost its services. Canadian authorities have closed the probe on this but have said that they would continue to monitor the company.
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