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Essential Antitrust #50: New safe harbours, sharper teeth - the EU's new merger playbook
The European Commission's draft merger guidelines land at a moment of real geopolitical flux — and its changes cut both ways. Scale, resilience, innovation and supply chain security are now embedded in the competitive assessment as key factors, and a new "theory of benefit" framework enables parties to argue efficiencies in novel and more comprehensive ways. At the same time, the Commission has equipped itself with a significantly expanded enforcement toolkit — from entrenchment and dynamic foreclosure to labour market effects and minority shareholdings.
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