The woman who took on Apple: How Danish EU Commissioner who was the inspiration behind 'Borgen' has won a legion of fans after her steadfast attack on taxdodging tech giants...

When the EU Competition Commissioner ordered Apple Inc to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros on Tuesday she did not mince her words.

Margrethe Vestager questioned how anyone might think an arrangement that allowed Apple to pay a tax rate of 0.005 percent, as Apple's main Irish unit did in 2014, was fair.

And in doing so earned herself a legion of fans around the world.

The 48-year-old tough talking Danish politician is seen as the woman that acclaimed Scandi political drama Borgen was modelled on.

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When Vestager was appointed as the European Union’s next competition commissioner in September 2014, Christian Riis-Madsen, a Danish antitrust lawyer for O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Brussels, said he expected her to have a different approach than her predecessor.

'I would expect her to be less influenced by political considerations,' he told Bloomberg. 'She’s known to be thorough, hard-working, getting things done.' Full story...

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