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EU platform rules, new competition powers are 'step in right direction,' Le Maire says

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 08 Sep 2020 09:36
  • 08 Sep 2020 09:36
New EU rules targeting platforms and expanded antitrust powers to tackle non-dominant companies have French support, the country’s finance minister says.
Bruno Le Maire signaled concerns over when digital giants “develop strategies to ‘lock in’ their users in their service and ecosystem, or when they systematically acquire promising and innovative

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


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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