BREAKINGVIEWS-‘Pro-growth’ M&A policing is a misnomer: podcast

Reuters2025-03-27

BREAKINGVIEWS-‘Pro-growth’ M&A policing is a misnomer: podcast

The hosts are Reuters Breakingviews columnists. The opinions expressed are their own.

By Aimee Donnellan, Jonathan Guilford

LONDON/NEW YORK, March 27(Reuters Breakingviews) - Follow on Apple or Spotify. Listen on the Reuters app. Read the episode transcript.

Listen to the podcast.

The transatlantic trustbusting consensus forged by Lina Khan and Margrethe Vestager is already fraying. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists discuss if it will lead to mergers involving national champions such as GSK and BP, and in turn remedy some economic ills.

Follow @JMAGuilford and @aimeedonnellan on X.

FURTHER READING

Hostile EU bank M&A raises risk of winner’s curse

EU champions’ hope will slam into hard M&A reality

New EU antitrust tsar has better tools, harder job

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