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Comment: Vestager's tough legacy on Big Tech strengthened by Google Shopping victory

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
  • 10 Nov 2021 11:05
  • 10 Nov 2021 11:05
Today's court victory over Google offers a roaring vindication for EU competition boss Margrethe Vestager's uncompromising pursuit of Google on antitrust grounds.

The EU's lower court this morning almost entirely rejected Google’s appeal against a 2.42 billion-euro antitrust sanction dating from 2017 ($2.8 billion today; see here). It is the firs

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Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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