More cross-border competition, and more reliable consumer protection, would do wonders to integrate the market.
But such limits might be hard to square with the principles of the European single market, which is meant to encourage cross-border competition.
But it may be that outside forces are more important: for example, a European Union that forbids cosy cartels, American pension funds that demand open accounts for their investments in France, or even the influence of the euro in promoting competition and cross-border mergers.
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Undeniably, concerns about competition policy increasingly cross borders (see article).
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IBM, along with other traditional data center outsources, has also struggled to cross-sell, according to Bernstein Research, given increased competition.
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Winner of the 2010 Working Capital Telecom Prize, start up competition sponsored by Telecom Italia, Timbuktu Labs builds cross-platform reading experiences that bring the most advanced methods of education into the publishing market.
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With massive regulation, caps on pay and restrictions on risk and competition, we can turn the entire financial sector into a cross between a public utility and the DMV.
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