Euro antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager to depart after decade of reining in Big Tech

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Her legacy hinges on her successor – will they double down?

Europe's top competition cop, Margrethe Vestager, will reportedly be stepping down later this year, a development certain to please the US tech firms she called to the carpet., the poor showing of her Social Liberal party in Denmark's 2022 election means she will not get renominated for a third term. The ruling Social Democrat party is expected to nominate a replacement from among the three men being considered.

With Europe's Digital Markets Act coming into force in 2022 – and with the designation in 2023 of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as"non-compliance investigations into Alphabet , Apple, and Meta over alleged violations of the DMA. And in prior competition investigations, the Commission has fined Google $2.7 billion , praised Vestager for having the courage to speak openly against digital oligopolies and the harms arising from concentrated industry power.

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