Brussels, 18/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - To the surprise of no-one, the Commission on Wednesday declared that Italy had violated article 21 of the EU Merger Regulation, which confers exclusive competence on the Commission to deal with Community-scale mergers (EUROPE 9288). Before the operation between the Spanish motorway company Albertis, and its Italian counterpart, Autostrade, was authorised by the Commission at the end of September (EUROPE 9272), the Italian authorities had raised several...