Bruegel: European Commission should build muscle to regulate killer acquisitions

A day after the EUโ€™s top court issued a ruling seemingly limiting the Commissionโ€™s authority to halt โ€˜killer acquisitions,โ€™ย influential think tank Bruegel said that EUโ€™s competition regulator should have a stronger regulatory strategy reviewing these….

EU court rips up Commissionโ€™s killer acquisition tool

Judges tell merger regulators to stop scooping up anti-competitive deals outside revenue thresholds.

Small mergers face scrutiny as EU Commission takes tougher stance

The European Commission announced it would use a novel competition tool to assess two mergers that do not have an EU dimension under the EU’s competition regulation, but nevertheless threaten competition in the single market.