BERLIN—Google has offered to remove Google News Showcase content from general search results in Germany in a bid to end a competition inquiry, the country’s Federal Cartel Office said on Wednesday. Alphabet’s Google launched Google News Showcase in 2020. The platform promotes content from more than 1,000 publishers that have agreed to license content for a fee. Germany’s Cartel Office said in June that it was investigating Google’s Showcase product under new powers to regulate internet companies, after a complaint by Corint Media, which manages the rights of German television and radio stations. The Bonn-based Cartel Office is concerned that Google’s dealmaking power could lead to some news providers being squeezed out of the market, and that including Showcase results into its general search engine could give it an unfair advantage over competitors. The German Cartel Office said in a statement that Google has now given assurances that access to …