She Took on Silicon Valley Giants. Now Margrethe Vestager Is Preparing for Her Final Act

Nov 12, 2018, 12:01 PM

As I arrive to meet Margrethe Vestager, she is bounding down the long corridor outside her Brussels office toward a group of German teenagers just leaving her office. "I forgot to offer you these!" Europe's Competition Commissioner says, handing them a box of chocolate-covered licorice from her hometown of Copenhagen. "You have to try this." As she races back to her office, one student gazes after her. "Wow," she says, through a mouthful of licorice. "She's amazing.