Margrethe Vestager
@vestager
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Executive Vice-President of the European Commission EU fit for Digital Age and Commissioner for Competition
Bruxelles
Joined January 2009
A solid team to take Europe forward on its path towards prosperity and social fairness 💪 . I wish all Commissioners the best in this new, decisive mandate.
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Our AI office and 9 partner AI safety institutes pool expertise to ensure AI systems are safe and trustworthy for us all. This shows the results of continuous cooperation with our partners and my colleague @GinaRaimondo. Very important to continue this great initiative.
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We welcome the creation of the European Cloud Competition Observatory by @cispe_cloud, as part of the settlement agreement with @Microsoft. 👉ECCO will help to limit unfair licensing practices in the cloud market. That means more affordable choice for all 🇪🇺 cloud customers.
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RT @EUinSingapore: The EU & Singapore strengthen collaboration on AI safety with a new Administrative Arrangement (AA) that:.📍Fosters AI sa….
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For AI to thrive in our societies we need to ensure safe and trustworthy systems. Happy that we have now jointly signed cooperation between the European 🇪🇺 AI Office and the Singapore 🇸🇬 AI Safety Institute. Also very happy with the warm welcome by @joteo_ylm
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.@Meta tied its classified ads service Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network @facebook + it imposed unfair trading conditions on competitors (eg Vinted, eBay, Le Bon Coin & others). This breaches @EU_Competition rules. We fine @Meta €797.8 M for abusing dominance.
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Today we approve funding for 5 projects that will address defence capability gaps in 🇪🇺 & increase support to 🇺🇦 with additional defence equipment. This is the 1st time we use EU budget to support Member States in commonly procuring defence products 💪.
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Posting of workers is part of the single market. Our proposed e-declaration portal will help e.g:.👉reduce businesses’ admin burden.👉 facilitate their compliance with existing rules.👉make it easier for labour inspectors to enforce rules . 🗞️
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These days more than ever, we must stay loyal to the 🇪🇺 model, which is to create prosperity & use that to create social welfare for people. Vivid competition to drive competitiveness. If we give that up now, it is certain we will lose in the long run. @FriendsofEurope
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Today we fine Teva 462 million euros for breaching @EU_Competition rules. Teva abused dominance by:.👉disparaging its main competitor.👉misusing the patent system. Here’s 1 minute to explain the disparagement side of the story 👇📺
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This is not our first disparagement case. Last July, we accepted commitments from Vifor to correct its own disparagement campaign. We want to keep affordable drugs + a wide choice of treatment for all 🇪🇺 patients & national healthcare systems 💊.
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In Paris @Concurrences conference, I got the question: “do you regret Siemens/Alstom?”. In short: non, je ne regrette rien 😊. An “au revoir” but not an “adieu” to the very competent, caring competition community that I had a pleasure to work with👋
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📢Today, we concluded negotiations on the future competition cooperation agreement between 🇪🇺 & 🇬🇧!. 👉It will allow enforcers from @EU_Commission, EU national competition authorities & @CMAgovUK to cooperate directly in competition investigations - to the benefit of citizens.
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The book is out since Wednesday / bogen kom ud i onsdags 😊😊.
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Flashback Friday😉 . 👉 Last week @EP_Taxation we discussed the aftermaths of the @apple case win. 📣 We achieved important changes towards more fiscal justice over the last 10 years, thanks to the combination of.📍state aid enforcement.📍action at EU, @oecd & national levels
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