Google’s appeal over a €4.125  billion ($4.7 billion) fine the European Union handed it has been dealt a huge blow. The European Court of Justice’s advocate general, Juliane Kokott, has recommended that the court dismiss the challenge.

Google faced a big setback Thursday in its attempt to overturn a multibillion-dollar European Union antitrust penalty involving Android after a top court's legal adviser sided with regulators.The European Court of Justice's advocate general,

The European Court of Justice's advocate general on Thursday proposed that Google's appeal against a record 4.1-billion-euro ($4.7 billion) antitrust fine be dismissed. The fine relates to a long-running antitrust case surrounding Google's Android operating system.