18/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - Mergers: Mittal/AngloAmerican-Lafarge. On 17 December, the European Commission gave the go-ahead to the acquisition by Mittal Investments, the investment arm of giant metal and mining group ArcelorMittalSA, of assets sold by Anglo American (mining, the UK) and Lafarge (cement, France) as a condition posed by the UK competition authority for the creation by the same companies of a construction materials joint venture in the UK. The assets sold off are for the...