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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11366

25 July 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 22
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) competition
Nokia's acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent given go-ahead

Brussels, 24/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 24 July, the European Commission gave the go-ahead under the EU merger regulation to the planned acquisition of Franco-US company Alcatel-Lucent S.A by Finland's Nokia Corporation.

The European Commission concluded that the transaction would not raise competition concerns, in particular because the parties are not close competitors and since a number of strong global competitors will remain active after the transaction.

In the field of...