EU hilariously thinks it can break up Google

The European Parliament Threatens To Break Up Google

Or at least that’s what is being suggested in the European Parliament, that search engines should be forced to be divorced from other business activities. It’s also true that they don’t directly mention Google GOOGL +0.39% but that’s obviously who it is aimed at. Fortunately, as a matter of public policy this isn’t going to go very far. Because the European Parliament doesn’t actually have the right to propose either actions or legislation. Only the European Commission can actually propose something and then the Parliament gets to say yea or nay to it.

So, in terms of anything being likely to happen in the immediate future there’s not much here. But it is an indication of quite how wildly the (would be) policy makers over here in Europe are out of touch with the way that the real world works.