Next Head of EU Competition Watchdog Faces Souring U.S. Relations, Telecoms’ Consolidation Push

Published on Apr 03, 2026

The frontrunner to head the European Commission’s competition watchdog, a nearly three-decade veteran of the EU executive, will have to perform some tricky balancing acts if he ultimately takes the helm – from conflicting views of how the bloc should achieve “competitiveness” to the tensions between Brussels and Washington on tech enforcement.

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