Macron Rebuke Prompts American Economist to Quit Top EU Post
- Fiona Scott Morton ditches top EU job after pushback
- France leverages more influence over key EU department
Emmanuel Macron in Brussels, Belgium, on July 18.
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A former adviser to Silicon Valley has walked away from a post as the European Commission’s chief competition economist, hours after a stinging rebuke from French President Emmanuel Macron.
Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at Yale University, said in a letter to European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager that she’s decided to not take up the position set to begin in September, “given the political controversy that has arisen because of the selection of a non-European to fill this position.”