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Margrethe Vestager, vice president of the European Commission, further urged EU citizens to take shorter showers. "When you turn off the water, say 'Take that, Putin!'” she said last week, referring to President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

From the home country of famed fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen, Vestager is sugar spinning a fairytale out of the brutal, soul-killing Socialism of the European Union Time To Tell Socialist European Union: Hands Off Private Enterprise! If you believe that European Union’s ambitious Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is hitting Alphabet (Google) with a $5-billion fine to protect European consumers, you’re buying straight into the EU’s political drive that seeks to replace Free Market Capitalism with Socialism and maybe should send for one of her knitted elephants. By hitting Google the biggest fine in its history, the EU has opened...