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Vestager: 'a gender-balanced Commission can do unprecedented work'

Vestager: 'a gender-balanced Commission can do unprecedented work'

Denmark's Margrethe Vestager has been a driving force of the European Commission's agenda, particularly in her role as Competition Commissioner.

She talks to Global Conversation ahead of passing on the baton.


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