Brussels, 06/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - On 6 January 2014, the European Commission rejected a request from Germany to refer the planned acquisition of Cemex West (a building materials company in Germany, part of Mexico's Cemex) by the Swiss building materials group Holcim to the German competition authority for assessment under national competition law. The Commission concluded that the geographic scope of the affected cement markets is wider than national and that therefore the Commission...