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Booking Holdings, the U.S. company that owns Booking.com and a number of other travel websites, has been added to the European Union's list of companies now under heightened digital scrutiny. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, said Monday that it’s classing Booking Holdings as an online gatekeeper and that the company’s Booking.com hotel reservation site meets the threshold to be classed as a “core platform service” under the 27-nation bloc's Digital Markets Act. European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager said the decision means that vacationers "will start benefiting from more choice and hotels will have more business opportunities.”
Sometimes the meaning of a musical performance soars above those purely musical qualities we critics love so much. Because of some unforeseen event it takes on a different, more purely human value. And yet that human quality becomes entwined in some mysterious way with the performance, so we hardly know what it is that’s stirring our feelings so deeply: something human or something musical.