by VivienneWalt | May 15, 2015 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt It’s early evening and Margrethe Vestager is sitting in her Brussels office sipping coffee, talking about her now famous antitrust campaigns against some of the world’s largest businesses. “If you want to eat an elephant, you need a strategy,” she...
by VivienneWalt | Apr 16, 2015 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS The E.U.’s case against Google made big news on Wednesday—so big, in fact, that the countless millions of Europeans who click on Google every day did not have to Google the company’s name to learn about it. In an announcement splashed on front...
by VivienneWalt | Aug 14, 2014 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS In the movie Braveheart, the 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace (in the form of Mel Gibson) gallops across the green Highlands exhorting people to fight the English and shouting in Gaelic, “Alba gu bràth!” or “Scotland forever!”...
by VivienneWalt | Mar 11, 2014 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ KIEV Ukraine’s capital Kiev is more than 400 miles north of Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula where President Putin has dispatched thousands of Russian troops, sparking the deepest crisis in decades between Russia and Western leaders. Yet these days,...
