Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
Google recently reached licensing deals in France, in part because a court intervened to require it to negotiate with news publishers. Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, an MEP with the Renew group and a former adviser to the French competition authority, pointed to the US group’s threats to pull out of Australia and recent negotiations in Europe as showing there still remained a need “to address imbalances”.
“It’s time to oblige online platforms to engage in fair negotiations to remunerate the news content they obtain from press publishers and advise them on algorithm changes that would affect content ranking" she said.
