PARIS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sept. 10 appeared to preempt an expected 2027 decision by the Commission’s Competition Directorate by saying the commission had ‘updated’ its competition policy to favor EU consolidations such as the proposed merger of the space divisions of Thales Group, Leonardo and Airbus.
The merger is now before the Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG-Comp) and is expected to close in mid-2027. Among the other questions about the merger, tentatively named . . .
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