Brussels, 13/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia says that the changes in EU merger rules under one of his predecessors, Mario Monti (of Italy), facilitated company mergers.
In an interview on French television (BFMTV) on Monday 12 May, Almunia was asked about the French Alstom case, and said that he could not remember a single case over the past decade when the European Commission had said no to a merger of giants, and in over 90% of cases, an...