Made famous by his victories on Google and Apple, Margrethe Vestager has re-elected for a second term as European Commissioner for Competition, with a title of vice-president and an expanded portfolio as a bonus. The Danish woman hides her game behind a sober outfit, floral dress and sometimes knitted on the knees, but she is a very powerful and ambitious woman.
Her second term was won against the promise to update European competition policy. Paris and Berlin, joined by Warsaw, laid down this demand for "modernization" in a joint text in July 2019. President Ursula von der Leyen translated it in her mission letter addressed to its commissioner on December 1. And on February 4, four Ministers of the Economy - the French Bruno Le Maire, the German Peter Altmaier, the Italian Stefano Patuanelli and the Polish Jadwiga Emilewicz - again took up the pen to encourage Margrethe Verstager to accelerate. "There is an emergency," we hear at
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