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Margrethe Vestager
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Margrethe Vestager
@vestager
Executive Vice-President of the European Commission EU fit for Digital Age and Commissioner for Competition
Bruxelles
Born April 13
Joined January 2009
- Thank you my dear friend 🙏🏼Honoring Margrethe Vestager Ten years ago, European Commission President Juncker nominated a Danish politician to be Minister for Competition. At the time, a few in the somewhat insular competition community wondered whether Margrethe Vestager was up to the job.
- A solid team to take Europe forward on its path towards prosperity and social fairness 💪 I wish all Commissioners the best in this new, decisive mandate.The new European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen has been approved! Today the European Parliament voted on the new college of commissioners, which will he proposing EU policies for the next five years.
- Our AI office and 9 partner AI safety institutes pool expertise to ensure AI systems are safe and trustworthy for us all. This shows the results of continuous cooperation with our partners and my colleague @GinaRaimondo. Very important to continue this great initiative.This week, we launched the International Network of AI Safety Institutes with an inaugural convening in San Francisco. Together with our partners, we’re working to advance safe, secure, and trustworthy AI innovation around the world.
- We welcome the creation of the European Cloud Competition Observatory by @cispe_cloud, as part of the settlement agreement with @Microsoft. 👉ECCO will help to limit unfair licensing practices in the cloud market. That means more affordable choice for all 🇪🇺 cloud customers.
- Margrethe Vestager reposted
The EU & Singapore strengthen collaboration on AI safety with a new Administrative Arrangement (AA) that: 📍Fosters AI safety research; 📍Promotes innovation, development & responsible use of AI; 📍Shares best practices for advancing human-centric AI systems. The AA, which
- For AI to thrive in our societies we need to ensure safe and trustworthy systems. Happy that we have now jointly signed cooperation between the European 🇪🇺 AI Office and the Singapore 🇸🇬 AI Safety Institute. Also very happy with the warm welcome by @joteo_ylm
Safe, trustworthy AI is vital for public trust and AI adoption. Today, Singapore and the EU deepen ties with a new Agreement, fostering AI safety research, robust evaluations, and best practices to advance human-centric AI systems. Excited for impactful collaborations ahead! - .@Meta tied its classified ads service Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network @facebook + it imposed unfair trading conditions on competitors (eg Vinted, eBay, Le Bon Coin & others) This breaches @EU_Competition rules. We fine @Meta €797.8 M for abusing dominance.For more information ⬇️ 📷<🔗: europa.eu/!Cpt4R9
- Today we approve funding for 5 projects that will address defence capability gaps in 🇪🇺 & increase support to 🇺🇦 with additional defence equipment. This is the 1st time we use EU budget to support Member States in commonly procuring defence products 💪
- Posting of workers is part of the single market. Our proposed e-declaration portal will help e.g: 👉reduce businesses’ admin burden 👉 facilitate their compliance with existing rules 👉make it easier for labour inspectors to enforce rules 🗞️shorturl.at/U7j7y
- These days more than ever, we must stay loyal to the 🇪🇺 model, which is to create prosperity & use that to create social welfare for people. Vivid competition to drive competitiveness. If we give that up now, it is certain we will lose in the long run. @FriendsofEurope
- Margrethe Vestager reposted
📍ENTRETIEN EXCLUSIF. La commissaire à la Concurrence Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) a affronté pendant dix ans les plus grosses firmes du monde. Elle tire sa révérence en décembre. Son interview sonne comme un testament politique. ➡️ l.lepoint.fr/ATG Par @Eberretta
- 📢update! Today we open a formal investigation to assess whether @temu may have breached the Digital Services Act. We will check (e.g.): 👉whether TEMU did enough to prevent the presence of illegal traders 👉the risks of addictive design of the serviceEveryday, millions of Europeans buy all sorts of products on Temu. We are concerned about the possible presence of traders selling illegal products on the platform. Today we formally request @shoptemu to provide information on the mitigation measures taken against such risk
