The government needs permission to break-up the banks from European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes.
The second problem is Karel Van Miert, the European competition commissioner, who has already intervened to block a number of broadcasting deals.
In a letter to the European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Lord Mandelson said Magna's plan was more expensive than that of a rival bidder.
European competition commissioner Mario Monti has called on Germany to hold off its rescue plan for construction company Philipp Holzmann until it gets European Union approval.
In January, when the issue was raised by a Euro-MP, European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Alumnia said the commission had no evidence the Windows 8 security requirements violated EU competition rules.
"Our objective is to restore the viability of banks receiving aid so that they are able to function without public support in the future, " the European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.
After a series of tense meetings over the last three years, sometimes over crispy Dutch pastries, other times in the sparse environs of a boardroom, Microsoft Chief Executive SteveBallmerSteve Ballmer and European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes had what was probably their final conversation about the EU's Microsoft antitrust case in the early hours of Monday morning -- by telephone.
French President Jacques Chirac is due to meet Juncker on Wednesday to discuss Mittal's bid, and whether to enlist European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, in their crew.
The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, threatened to take action over what could have been a breach of EU competition rules.
ECONOMIST: The French government tries to grab the wheel at Renault
The post was reportedly offered to Mario Monti, the European Union's competition commissioner, but he turned it down in order to stay in the running for a top job in Brussels.
The shipyard, in danger of going bankrupt, was given a lifeline this week when Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition, met with Polish officials and told the press an EU bailout of the shipyard was likely.
As the European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia approaches the second half of his time in office, in spite of the continuing economic crisis, practitioners expect no softening for antitrust enforcement at the European Union (EU) level.
FORBES: EU Expected To Hit Hard On Antitrust Enforcement In 2013
It's been joked for decades that an appropriate mantra for Microsoft would be something along the lines of "resistance is futile, " but now Earth's biggest software company has been told by the European's chief competition commissioner that "non-compliance" is just as fruitless.
After FORBES GLOBAL had the impertinence to question the European Union's competition commissioner, Mario Monti, about his working relationship with U.S. regulators after the GE-Honeywell debacle, the Italian professor decided the World Economic Forum in Davos was the ideal public venue to put us across his knee for a hiding.
The European Commissioner's competition czar, Mario Monti, is acting in the same mindless, headline-grabbing fashion that our former antitrust boss Joel Klein did when he went after Microsoft.
Next month, European Union regulators, led by Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, will announce their plans for pursuing an antitrust investigation into Google's broad business practices, particularly accusations by a number of companies including Microsoft, Travelocity, Expedia and Kayak that it has abused its dominant position in search.
Further delays were feared when EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes asked for changes to the European edition of the operating system to better open it up to rival software providers.
ON's bid does, however, pose a dilemma for Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner, because it runs counter to her efforts to increase competition in European energy markets.
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