{"id":51313,"date":"2026-04-30T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/51313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:53:09","slug":"eu-merger-shake-up-exposes-von-der-leyen-ribera-clash-of-visions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/51313\/","title":{"rendered":"EU merger shake-up exposes von der Leyen\u2013Ribera clash of visions\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe global economy has changed, the global markets have changed, the different European public interests that need to be preserved need to be updated.\u201d But, she added: \u201cThe regulatory framework remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ribera\u2019s competition department delivered the document in short order after von der Leyen\u2019s call to hurry it up.<\/p>\n<p>A first draft was ready by mid-March, although von der Leyen\u2019s cabinet only decided to advance the process a month later, an EU official confirmed to POLITICO, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/14596-Merger-guidelines-review_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">now open to public feedback<\/a>, are ultimately a versatile document. They encourage companies to argue that their deals are good for the EU economy, and spell out avenues for officials to assess these claims \u2014 for example on the basis of innovation, resilience, or investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, officials have a wide margin for interpretation, which is why antitrust lawyers aren\u2019t really buying the change until they see it play out in concrete cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re a bit like the Bible, Assimakis Komninos, a senior antitrust partner at White &amp; Case, told POLITICO: \u201cEverybody can read anything into it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe global economy has changed, the global markets have changed, the different European public interests that need to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[4050,250,1502,650,3085,4857,1065,242,245,233,249,2430,2432,4342,2043,13304,16,13305,8533,6298,1086,1744,31668,7231,17,403],"class_list":{"0":"post-51313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ursula-von-der-leyen","8":"tag-antitrust","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-competition","12":"tag-competitiveness","13":"tag-department","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-emmanuel-macron","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-friedrich-merz","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-global-economy","20":"tag-industry","21":"tag-innovation","22":"tag-investment","23":"tag-mario-draghi","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-mergers","26":"tag-regulatory","27":"tag-resilience","28":"tag-rights","29":"tag-single-market","30":"tag-telecoms","31":"tag-teresa-ribera","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116495410965609638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}