Margrethe Vestager
254 results
EU regulators open inquiry into Kingspan’s Trimo deal
- Manufacturing
- April 13, 2021, 15:21
EU competition regulators plan an in-depth investigation of Irish insulation specialist Kingspan’s takeover of rival Trimo. Kingspan said last year t(...)
Ireland ranks last in EU for pandemic state aid to companies
- Economy
- March 10, 2021, 06:00
Ireland ranked last in the European Union for the amount of state aid it doled out to companies in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic in proportion to (...)
EU should give gig workers same rights as permanent staff
- Work
- February 24, 2021, 17:54
The European Commission has launched a consultation on whether gig workers should be given the same employment rights as those of staff in more secure(...)
Shannon Airport passenger numbers tumble in face of Covid-19
- Transport & Tourism
- January 20, 2021, 17:56
Passenger numbers at Shannon Airport tumbled almost 1.4 million to 352,000 people in the face of last year’s Covid-19 travel restrictions. The news c(...)
No promise of a happy new year for Big Tech as EU and US lawmakers bear down
- Technology
- January 5, 2021, 05:50
Big Tech is stepping into a year where the only certainty is that there will be much unwelcome uncertainty. And with so many of the major technology p(...)
New EU laws will take on dominance of Big Tech
- Economy
- December 6, 2020, 17:04
New European Union rules will seek to crack down on illegal online content while ending the excessive dominance of large technology companies skewing (...)
Putting digital services at the service of Europeans
- Technology
- December 6, 2020, 17:00
Even in the midst of the biggest crisis most of us have ever witnessed, digital services help us to continue working, doing business, learning, stayin(...)
No guarantees EU will win Apple Irish tax ruling appeal, says Vestager
- Economy
- December 4, 2020, 14:21
European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said she is hopeful of a winning the appeal against the Apple tax ruling, but admitted (...)
Teva, Cephalon fined €60.5m for delay to sales of sleep-disorder drug
- Health & Pharma
- November 26, 2020, 17:33
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and its Cephalon unit were fined €60.5 million by the European Union for a pact that delayed sales of a cheaper ver(...)
EU charges Amazon with misusing data to edge out rivals
- Technology
- November 10, 2020, 09:42
The European Union’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager has charged Amazon with using its size, power, and data collected on rivals to give itself a(...)



