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EU: Vestager starts off strong

By  |  March 8, 2015

Margrethe Vestager is not a competition enforcer inclined to settle cases in backroom deals, the FT reports.

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    “It’s very important not to make a habit out of settlements,” she says. “They are much more quick and much more smooth and everyone can move on, but still you need occasion to develop [case law] and only our judges and going to court can do that.”

    Vestager appears more willing to take the traditional, more confrontational route: charges, possible fines, imposed conditions and the long court battles that follow.

     

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