European Union regulators will actively pursue Google parent Alphabet Inc. on multiple fronts ranging from its contracts with advertisers to its Android mobile-operating system, the bloc’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said, in the clearest sign yet that the U.S. search giant is likely to face fresh competition charges in Brussels.
In an interview, Ms. Vestager also hinted that a compromise is possible with Russian energy company OAO Gazprom, OGZD, -0.01% which the EU has charged with hindering competition in Eastern European gas markets, and expressed skepticism over claims that Europe’s telecommunications operators need to merge.
A year after taking office as Europe’s most powerful regulator, Ms. Vestager has moved decisively on a number of major cases that had languished under her predecessor, Joaquín Almunia of Spain.
