From the Editor
  • Margrethe Vestager spent two decades in the Danish Government before landing a job holding the world's biggest tech companies to account.
  • Since being named EU Commissioner for Competition Policy in 2014, she has taken action against Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and others.
  • In 2016, the Commision ordered Apple to pay €13 billion in unpaid taxes (the biggest tax fine in history).
  • This year Vestager fined Google another record penalty of €4.34bn for abusing its market dominance.
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