In Dublin, home to Google’s European headquarters, that has involved a one-year course in software coding for local teachers. Google’s European regulatory problems have gone from bad to worse. It wouldn’t have happened without Google.”The Silicon Valley company is also tapping into a more friendly audience: Europe’s tech community. And almost no group has been as active in lobbying against Google as Europe’s powerful publishers. That places it among the top 10 for such spending in Europe, but is a far cry from the approximately $17 million that Google spent in Washington over the same period.

Source: International New York Times July 19, 2016 11:40 UTC