The British Government has prohibited the purchase of the activities of the British brewers BASS by the Belgian INTERBREW. The latter has now to sell BASS BREWERS to a purchaser it will have "approved". As a reminder, the purchase of the brewing activities of BASS was concluded last summer for some £2.3 bn. The British competition authorities were the only ones to decide on the issue, the services of the European Commission having discharged themselves of the case as it only concerned the...