Margrethe Vestager, nemesis of Google, inspiration for TV series

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rKX8LYD_dEqT4rNMhsEpxQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par8148058-1-1-0.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/margrethe-vestager-nemesis-google-inspiration-tv-series-185931707.html)Methodical and unyielding, Denmark's Margrethe Vestager inspired her country's hit television political drama Borgen well before she took on US Internet giant Google as the EU's powerful new competition commissioner. She is bound to attract attention in the United States during her visit there on Thursday, a day after she announced Brussels had formally charged Google with abusing its search engine dominance and launched a probe into its omnipresent Android mobile phone operating system. Vestager is tackling Google head-on, unlike her predecessor Joaquin Almunia of Spain who sought three times to reach a negotiated settlement with the Internet giant. In laying out the charges against Google at Wednesday's press conference in Brussels, Vestager hewed to the line that she is fighting for consumers, companies of all national origins, and, above all, the facts.



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