On Wednesday 19 July, the Vice-President of the European Commission for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, regretfully announced that Professor Fiona Scott Morton was withdrawing from the role of Chief Economist in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. Ms Scott Morton was due to take up this post on 1 September.
In a letter to Margrethe Vestager, Ms Scott Morton explained her decision in the light of the political controversy that followed the announcement of her...