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EU's Digital Markets Act to tackle malfunctions in online markets, says Vestager

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 27 Oct 2020 07:06
  • 27 Oct 2020 07:06

The European Commission is grouping together its initiatives relating to the functioning of online markets — including plans to regulate gatekeeper platforms — in a proposal called the Digital Markets Act, its digital policy boss Margrethe Vestager has said.

It will be separate to the Digital Services Act, which was flagged in

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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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