Google's anti-trust foes see ally in new EU competition chief
Danish politician Margrethe Vestager who took over the competition portfolio from Joaquin Almunia is expected to be more sympathetic
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AFTER waiting more than four years for Brussels to resolve his anti-trust complaint against Google while traffic to his website plunged by 80 percent, Michael Weber of German online mapping service Hot-Map.com held out little hope for success. Until now.
He says a meeting with the new competition chief of the European Commission has left him with newfound hope that Brussels will take action at last to curb behaviour by the US Internet giant, which he blames for hurting his business.
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