Fully impartial: Vestager insists she is not biased against US companies, adding that there were also Japanese firms in the crosshairs in their car part cartel cases.
BRUSSELS: Europe's antitrust chief dismissed on Friday accusations of anti-US bias over her decision to go after Google for abusing its Internet search dominance and Apple over an Irish tax deal, saying such talk was a fallacy.
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's robust defence of her actions came after she was criticised in the US media for a spate of cases opened over the past year against US giants such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Starbucks.
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