We review the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office Germany) decision on the proposed merger between Springer and …-economic approach in European merger control, a particular thorough line of argumentation, backed with particularly convincing economic … evidence, is necessary to justify a prohibition of a conglomerate merger from an economic point of view. Against this …

Competition laws in Europe have already been partially harmonised. However, the merger control regimes of the EU and … having to file merger notifications in several European countries in parallel, or facing a referral request from a Member … State.Against this backdrop, it has been suggested that the merger control regimes across Europe could be fully harmonised …

question by making use of a merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg in 2003. In addition to identifying the …