{"id":1002933,"date":"2026-04-15T10:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002933"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:24:32","slug":"irish-eu-veteran-picked-to-head-european-commissions-elite-competition-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/irish-eu-veteran-picked-to-head-european-commissions-elite-competition-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish EU veteran picked to head European Commission&#8217;s elite competition unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Irish EU veteran Anthony Whelan will head the European Commission&#8217;s elite competition unit, a senior Commission executive said on Monday, a job which has taken on added importance amid calls on regulators to ease merger rules and tensions with the United States over tech laws. <\/p>\n<p>Whelan, 57, takes over from Frenchman Olivier Guersent who retired last August after a 33-year career tackling \u200cantitrust issues, cartels and \u2060financial \u2060services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Irish EU veteran Anthony Whelan will head the European Commission&#8217;s elite competition unit, a senior Commission executive said on Monday, a job which has taken on added importance amid calls on regulators to ease merger rules and tensions with the United States over tech laws. Whelan, 57, takes over from Frenchman Olivier Guersent who retired last August after a 33-year career tackling \u200cantitrust issues, cartels and \u2060financial \u2060services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}