Cooperation, Convergence, and Conflicts? The Case of EU and National Merger Control

Andreas Bardong, Dec 30, 2013

The mantra of international merger control has been cooperation, convergence, and comity. Within the European Union, coherence is another widely accepted objective. Taking stock of the situation in the European Union the results are very positive: The level of coherence between the practices of the EU Commission and national competition authorities is generally very high, cooperation is mostly intensive and close (also between the national authorities, e.g. on the b