The Wall Street Journal reports "So why does the iTunes store charge some Europeans more than others to download a song? In an April WSJ story, Apple blamed the music companies. 'Apple has always wanted to operate a single pan-European iTunes Store accessible by anyone from any member state,' said an Apple spokesman. 'We don’t think Apple did anything to violate EU law.'" Meanwhile, the EU also blames record labels, apparently considering Apple to be more or less a conduit of the record companies' wrongs rather than an active violator. An EU spokesperson said "this is an arrangement imposed on Apple by the record companies [...] The main focus of our attention is the major record companies." In June, the EU said that Apple had only two days to respond to an anti-trust charges alleging that the company restricted online sales of music in Europe. The European Commission originally set a deadline of early June for the response, but granted a two-week extension at the request of Apple and three of the four record companies also implicated; the fourth record company had already submitted a written response to the charges. Apple's response was that it has always wanted to offer a standard pricing structure across Europe, but is unable to do so because of record company policy.