Tech Giants Risk Breakups as Vestager Weighs ‘Last Resort’

  • Vestager says breaking up companies would be a ‘last resort’
  • Regulators frustrated by lack of change following some probes

Margrethe Vestager, competition commissioner of the European Commission,

Photographer: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg
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U.S. tech giants run the risk of being broken up if they don’t play fair, under tough new rules being weighed as a “last resort” by European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, a regular tormentor of Silicon Valley.

Digital markets “can tip very fast so we as competition enforcers need to be able to move quickly,” the EU commissioner told a competition law conference on Friday.