Margrethe Vestager on the importance of ensuring a fair deal for all the EU’s consumers
Margrethe Vestager is the current EU Competition Commissioner. The daughter of two priests, she grew up in Ølgod in southwest Jutland. Having taken a degree in economics at the University of Copenhagen, she joined the Finance Ministry in 1993. Vestager took her first serious steps into politics as Radikale Venstre MP for Esbjerg in 1988.