Brussels Briefing: The real ‘Borgen’ takes on the competition

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Margrethe Vestager, the Danish deputy prime minister and economics minister has just arrived in Brussels to take up the delicate Competition portfolio.

She, rather than PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt, is the person who the main character in Borgen, pictured, is based on, according to Danish sources.