Margrethe Vestager

Margrethe Vestager (Danish pronunciation: [makʁætə ˈvɛstˌæˀɐ]; born 13 April 1968) is a Danish social liberal politician, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age since 1 December 2019 and European Commissioner for Competition from 2014. Vestager was a member of the Folketing from 20 November 2001 until 2 September 2014, representing the Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre). She was the political leader of her party from 2007 to 2014, and served as Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior from 2011 to 2014. She has been described as "the rich world’s most powerful trustbuster".

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1968-04-13

Birth Place

Glostrup

Education

University_of_Copenhagen

Political Ideology

Danish_Social_Liberal_Party

Spouse(s)

Thomas Jensen

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How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager

Margrethe Vestager is one of the driving forces behind tech regulation worldwide. Appointed as the European Commission’s commissioner of competition in 2014 and an executive vice president in 2019, she’s pursued antitrust cases against Apple, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), and Amazon among others. Now, with the EU on the verge of implementing a new antitrust law called the Digital Markets Act, Vestager is planning her next moves.

BUSINESS2022-03-17

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The Exchange: Margrethe Vestager

LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Europe’s antitrust tsar is responsible for keeping U.S. digital behemoths in check and making sure that the bloc doesn’t slip too far behind on technology. She joined Liam Proud to talk about a string of recent court losses and the future of competition policy.

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Davos does Glasgow and up close with Margrethe Vestager

Send tips and thoughts to rheath@politico.com or follow Ryan on Twitter. Good morning from Madrid, where the revolution is definitely being televised. More below. It’s now becoming commonplace to make a global TV or film hit in your own language, in your own country. That’s the lesson from both new statistics released by Netflix on the company’s Squid Game hit, and an exclusive tour Global Insider got this morning at the company’s massive new Secuoya Studios outside of Madrid.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook in New York for Meeting With EU's Competition Chief Margrethe Vestager

Apple CEO Tim Cook is in New York City today for a meeting with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, according to a person familiar with the matter. Vestager was a keynote speaker at Fordham University's annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy earlier today. It's unclear when...

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