Profile: The driving force of Margrethe Vestager

September 22 2016

Margrethe Vestager is known for taking items out of her friends’ shopping baskets if she feels they are making the wrong decision. The EU competition commissioner is not short of opinions when it comes to the world’s most powerful companies either – routinely provoking disagreements with major corporations.

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