UPDATE: US economist Fiona Scott Morton announced on Wednesday (July 19th) that she was giving up running for a key EU post for the regulation of tech giants.
Fiona Scott Morton, a former employee of the US Justice Department's antitrust division, and a consultant for GAFAM, will become chief economist at the UE Competition Directorate General on September 1
<i>The Commission argued that the American lobbyist was the "best candidate" for the job. That a group of 27 countries with one of the world's most sophisticated antitrust arsenals is unable to provide talent to rival the skills of Scott Morton is surprising, to say the least.</i><p>If the EU Commission proposed the appointment, then it's a safe bet the commission itself is captured/corrupt. <i>Very</i> corrupt, given how outrageous appointing a non-EU-citizen to a high-ranking EU political position is.