BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) hopes to close a high-stakes anti-trust dispute with Internet giant Google by next spring, Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Tuesday, with a settlement seeming increasingly possible.

The commission, the EU’s executive, has accused Google of giving unfair preference in its search results to its own services, such as surveys of restaurants and hotels.

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