Margrethe Vestager

Teresa Ribera, pictured in 2020 when she was Spain's vice-president.
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Spanish socialist Teresa Ribera likely to become EU antitrust enforcer, as Ursula von der Leyen names new team

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EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager looking very happy after winning Apple and Google cases
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Apple’s iPhone 16 victory lap is spoiled by the EU’s ‘tax lady’ and her record $14.4 billion legal victory

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September 10, 2024
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Booking.com’s parent company is officially a gatekeeper, EU monopoly watchdog says

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May 13, 2024
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EU watchdog on Apple’s first antitrust penalty over music streaming: ‘This is illegal. And it has impacted millions of European consumers’

By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
March 4, 2024
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends a press event to announce Google as the new official partner of the Women's National Team at Google Berlin.
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Google may be forced to sell off some of its most prized businesses after being hit with fresh EU antitrust charges over alleged adtech abuses

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June 14, 2023
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager gives a joint press conference at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, on January 25, 2018 as the EU hit US chipmaking giant Qualcomm with an antitrust fine of 997 million euros ($1.2 billion) for paying Apple to use its chips exclusively in iPhones and iPads.
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Qualcomm’s $1 billion victory is another blow to the EU’s antitrust push against Big Tech

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June 15, 2022
In this photo illustration, an Intel logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market graphics in the background.
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Intel wins historic $1.2 billion appeal over antitrust fine

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January 26, 2022
European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager speaks with her staff prior to a round table discussion with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at the Commerce Department in Washington, DC, on December 7, 2021.
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Europe hits Uber and other gig-economy firms with tough new rules that will give many contractors the rights of employees

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December 9, 2021
Margrethe Vestager, competition commissioner of the European Commission, during a group photo following the inaugural Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021.
Tech

Google loses appeal against $2.7 billion antitrust fine over its comparison-shopping practices

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November 10, 2021
22 September 2021, Lower Saxony, Oldenburg: A USB-C (l-r), an Apple Lightning and a Micro-USB cable (l-r) can be seen next to each other.
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Europe wants one device charger to rule them all—and it doesn’t come from Apple

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September 23, 2021
What will the future of Big Tech regulation look like? Europe offers some clues
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What will the future of Big Tech regulation look like? Europe offers some clues

By David Meyer and Nicole Goodkind
August 16, 2021
Google logos on an Android phone
Tech

Google’s ad-tech tactics spark yet another EU antitrust investigation

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June 22, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., speaks virtually during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees hearing on a tablet computer in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, March 25, 2021.
Tech

Europe and the U.K. hit Facebook with twin antitrust probes

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June 4, 2021
This photograph taken on March 3, 2021 in Zurich shows a sign of Swiss banking giant UBS on their headquarters.
Finance

Europe whacks UBS, Nomura, and UniCredit with $450M in fines over bond-market cartel

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May 20, 2021
Margrethe Vestager, competition commissioner of the European Commission, center, speaks beside Valdis Dombrovskis, trade commissioner for the European Union (EU), left, and Thierry Breton, industry commissioner of the European Union (EU), during a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday.
International

With an eye on China, Europe mulls restrictions on foreign takeovers and investments

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May 5, 2021

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