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Big Tech doesn't get an easy ride from EU merger enforcement, Vestager insists

By Andrew Boyce ( July 29, 2021, 15:22 GMT | Insight) -- The EU’s merger regulator isn’t soft on digital acquisitions by the likes of Google and Facebook and “rigorously intervenes against anticompetitive mergers and practices in all sectors,” the EU’s competition chief has said. The European Commission “does not shy away from requiring wide-ranging remedies,” Margrethe Vestager said, highlighting commitments extracted from Google’s takeover of Fitbit and Microsoft’s swoop for LinkedIn.The EU’s merger regulator isn’t soft on digital acquisitions by the likes of Google and Facebook and “rigorously intervenes against anticompetitive mergers and practices in all sectors,” the EU’s competition chief has said....

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