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EU companies will see industrial strategy give them more global support, Von der Leyen says

By Matthew Newman
  • 09 Mar 2020 09:24
  • 09 Mar 2020 09:24
EU companies will get more policy support for cracking open foreign markets while ensuring fair competition at home, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said.
Speaking at a press conference to mark her first 100 days in office, Von der Leyen said that the EU’s new industrial strategy,

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Matthew Newman

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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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