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5 min read EMEA Margrethe Vestager isn’t wasting any time. Just months after becoming the European Union’s competition chief, the Danish politician moved beyond her predecessors’ cautious policies to confront the monsters of the digital and energy worlds – Google and Gazprom. But her ambitious battles on Eastern and Western fronts may have one clear beneficiary: Europe’s mergers and acquisitions boom. In a matter of weeks, the “Iron Woman of Denmark” picked up dossiers moldering in the filing cabinets of Joaquin Almunia, the prior competition chief, and turned them into action. “There is a lot to do,” Vestager, 47, said Monday in New York. ....