Brussels, 27/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Competitiveness Council adopted by unanimity, a political agreement on the new "merger" regulation for inspecting company mergers. Germany, which initially opposed the draft being adopted (the only one to do so), finally supported the agreement. It harboured reservations on the definition of the "test" for deciding whether a merger should be banned or not, preferring the definition in force in Community law and which had been based on German...