Swedish antitrust ruling delayed

A Swedish court was supposed to tell PriceRunner and Google who won on April 15, 2026. Instead, Stockholm’s Patent and Market Court pushed the judgment to June 10, 2026 at 11:00 Central European Time and said it needed more time to finish the decision. (morningstar.com) This is not a small scheduling tweak. The case is PriceRunner’s claim for about $8.3 billion, and Klarna has called it the largest civil damages claim ever filed in a Swedish court. (businesswire.com) PriceRunner is a shopping comparison site, which means it lines up prices from different stores the way a flight app lines up fares from different airlines. Google runs the search engine that decides which links most people see first. (businesswire.com) The fight is over what antitrust lawyers call self-preferencing. In plain English, regulators said Google gave its own shopping service better placement on search pages while rival comparison sites were pushed down. (ec.europa.eu) That part is not just PriceRunner’s opinion. The European Commission made that finding in June 2017, and the European Union’s General Court upheld the decision on November 10, 2021. (ec.europa.eu) (eur-lex.europa.eu) By September 2024, Klarna said, the Court of Justice of the European Union had upheld that 2017 decision, which is why PriceRunner could come to a Swedish court asking for money rather than asking regulators to re-decide the same conduct. (businesswire.com) The Swedish trial itself was long. It ran from October 20 to December 19, 2025, which helps explain why the written judgment may be taking months instead of days. (businesswire.com) What the Swedish judges still have to decide is not whether the European Commission fined Google in 2017. They have to decide whether Google’s conduct caused PriceRunner specific losses in Sweden and, if so, how much of the claimed $8.3 billion is actually supported. (morningstar.com) (businesswire.com) That is why the delay matters more than a calendar change. A June 10 ruling will test whether a European Union antitrust case can turn into a multibillion-dollar private damages award in national court, with Google on one side and Klarna-owned PriceRunner on the other. (antitrust-intelligence.com) (businesswire.com)