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This is a commentary of the judgement of the General Court of 12 December 2018 which dismissed the appeal brought by the French broadcaster Groupe Canal + against the Commission’s decision accepting the commitments offered by Paramount in the cross-border pay-TV case (AT.40023). This ruling...
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This article charts the period between 1985 and 2015 and looks at the impact that the European Union Merger Regulation …
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Over the last years, several reports highlighted the market power of very large online platforms that are gatekeeping intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with anti-competitive practices in these platforms....
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. Systematic empirical evidence on the role of merger control as barrier to M&A is, however, still missing. The main problem is the … lack of data on the scope for politicians and supervisors to block M&A during merger control. The main contribution of this … transparency of merger control. The main source of information is a questionnaire that was sent to the supervisors in the 25 EU …
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In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for ‘prudential reasons and formal errors’. Following these events, the EU Commission brought actions against Italy for infringement of the principle of the free movement of capital....
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questions remain on the application of the Proposed Regulation, if adopted: in terms of its interaction with the EU merger …
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merger can sometimes be the result of a successful takeover bid (i.e. acquisition of the offeree company’s shares and …. Combining these two corporate restructuring methods could result in a more effective business consolidation. Takeover bids and … movement of capital (Art. 56 EC Treaty). Hence, the conduct of takeover bids and mergers, either separately or in combination …
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