12/05/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission decided on Wednesday 12 May to appoint Guillaume Loriot as Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) in charge of mergers. He will take up his office on 16 May. Guillaume Loriot, a French national, is currently the Director of the Directorate dealing with antitrust, mergers and state aid in digital, telecoms and media cases, at DG COMP. The Commission has also appointed two Directors in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). Luc Tholoniat from France will become Director for the ‘Economies of the Member States’ Directorate and Giorgio Chiarion Casoni from Italy will become Director of the Directorate ‘InvestEU and financial Institutions’. (LC)