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EU antitrust chief Vestager to run for top post at European Investment Bank

By Matthew Newman
  • 20 Jun 2023 16:20
  • 20 Jun 2023 16:30
EU competition and digital chief Margrethe Vestager is a candidate to run the European Investment Bank following support from the Danish government, the commissioner confirmed today.
“I am pleased that the Danish government has put forward my name to be vetted as a possible candidate for the position as president

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Matthew Newman

Chief Correspondent


Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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