Brussels, 26/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has welcomed the adoption by the Council of the EU, on 26 February, of a new regulation giving it powers to apply competition rules to alliances between a European airline and a third country airline, or between foreign companies whose activities involve the EU. Until now, only mergers and alliances between European airlines could be examined under competition rules. This decision ends a long-term anomaly, underlines the...