Clifford Chance
Protectionism in the Age of Austerity – A Further Unlevelling of the Playing Field?
21 June 2012
Alex Nourry, Head of the London Antitrust Practice at Clifford Chance and Nelson Jung, Director at the Office of Fair Trading, revisit the issue of Member States' attempts to create or protect national champions by interventionist industrial policies and the European Commission's continued resolve to block them where it considers that such mergers would significantly impede effective competition. This article first appeared in CPI Competition Policy International Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 2012.
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Protectionism in the Age of Austerity – A Further Unlevelling of the Playing Field?
