A US economist who was selected for a key EU antitrust job has turned down the offer, the European Commission's competition chief Margrethe Vestager announced Wednesday. "Professor Fiona Scott Morton has informed me of her decision to not take up the post as Chief Competition Economist," Vestager tweeted. If Morton would have assumed the role, she would have assisted with EU probes into big tech giants such as Apple and Google. French President Emmanuel Macron derided the EU's choice to pick Morton, saying it "raised many questions." In 2019, Morton wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post that dismissed breaking up big tech companies as "sloganeering."

Source: Washington Post July 19, 2023 09:38 UTC