EU antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, triggered the furore last week by picking Fiona Scott Morton as the chief economist of the EU s antitrust unit, the competition arm currently running probes into U.S. tech giants Alphabet, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Amazon s bid for iRobot.
BRUSSELS: A French-led backlash led to a US economist withdrawing from a top European Union antitrust job on Wednesday (Jul 19), a move some economists said risks undermining competiti
A French-led backlash led to a U.S. economist withdrawing from a top European Union antitrust job on Wednesday, a move some economists said risks undermining competition policy-making. EU antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, triggered the furore last week by picking Fiona Scott Morton as the chief economist of the EU's antitrust unit, the competition arm currently running probes into U.S. tech giants Alphabet, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Amazon's bid for iRobot.
EU antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, triggered the furore last week by picking Fiona Scott Morton as the chief economist of the EU s antitrust unit.
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