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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by freeflight on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:59AM (#19442218)
That's a bit misleading because the EU we know today wasn't actually around back when the USSR was still a thing.

It only became fully realized with the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, which was shortly after the fall of the USSR in 1991.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by mattmanser on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:31AM (#19443177)
Was it responsible for the 45 years of peace after WW2 or not?
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by freeflight on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:06PM (#19446918)
The EU? It very likely did its fair share for making that a reality.

But I wouldn't go as far as claiming it's solely responsible for it because rarely anything is as simple as that.

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