Changing Guard at EU Antitrust Helm: New Chief to Navigate Sweeping Reforms After Elections

The next head of the world’s toughest antitrust enforcer will be appointed after the European elections and faces two new and sweeping laws. During the decade Margrethe Vestager oversaw the European Union’s powerful Directorate-General for Competition, the agency penalized Apple, Google, and other tech companies with multiple billion-euro fines and proposed bold new antitrust enforcement guidelines that would allow the regulator to penalize a wider range of anti-competitive behavior. The Directorate-General also adopted the landmark Digital Markets Act, an antitrust law tailored for Big Tech, and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, which applied the EU’s state aid regime to companies that benefited from foreign subsidies. To read more about the anticipated changes and new leadership, the full article is available here.