Trump suggested the EU Commissioner for Competition is opening investigations into U.S. tech firms out of malice.
President Donald Trump called Fox Business on Wednesday and appeared to take aim at Margarethe Vestager, Europe's firebrand Commissioner for Competition.
On Wednesday, the European Union opened yet another investigation into whether a U.S. company, the semiconductor company Broadcom, is violating the EU's competition rules. The investigation will center on Broadcom's chipsets for televisions and Internet modems. European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager during a news conference on Ireland's tax dealings with Apple, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, August 30.Also this week, the European Union fined the U.S. chip firm Qualcomm for the second time for antitrust violations. Last year the company was forced to pay a $1.13 billion fine.
Trump, meanwhile, doesn't appear to be completely opposed to anti-trust arguments. On Wednesday, he told Fox Business that the U.S. government should also be suing tech companies like Google and Facebook, and said that,"you may need legislation in order to create competition."
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