To get up to speed with the Google antitrust investigation, the European Union’s new antitrust commissioner wants to talk to parties that are directly affected by the case.

Margrethe Vestager said she had been following the investigations into Google’s search practices closely before she was nominated as Commissioner, but said new talks are still necessary.

“To decide how to take our investigations forward, I need to know what those most directly affected by the practices in question have to say. I need to have a representative sample of views of those concerned,” she said in a statement Tuesday. “We are talking about fast moving markets — I have to be sure that we have all the facts up to date to get it right.”

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