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Tech CEOs' meeting with EU's Breton on digital initiatives postponed to Dec. 2

By Matthew Newman
  • 20 Nov 2020 03:58
  • 20 Nov 2020 03:58
An eleventh-hour call between chief executives of leading tech companies and EU internal market chief Thierry Breton to discuss the bloc’s forthcoming digital market regulations has been pushed back to Dec. 2, MLex understands.

The meeting had been scheduled for Nov. 24, but was postponed because of a conflict in Breton

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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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