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Nicholas Hirst

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Reporter for MLex in Brussels covering competition policy

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  • Microsoft-OpenAI talks being monitored by EU merger watchdog

    2 days ago | mlex.com | Jean Comte |Nicholas Hirst

    By Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst ( May 13, 2025, 10:32 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft’s latest discussions with Open AI are on the radar of EU competition regulators, with top official Olivier Guersent saying they will check whether any developments require EU sign-off.

  • EU’s merger consultation kicks off potentially far-reaching overhaul

    1 week ago | mlex.com | Andrew Boyce |Nicholas Hirst

    By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst ( May 8, 2025, 16:29 GMT | Comment) -- The EU’s approach to scrutinizing mergers could face a once-in-a-generation overhaul to judge from the wide-ranging and even hipster questions being asked by regulators today.

  • EU’s Ribera promises ‘ambitious’ overhaul of bloc’s merger control

    1 week ago | mlex.com | Nicholas Hirst

    By Nicholas Hirst ( May 8, 2025, 08:30 GMT | Insight) -- The EU’s approach to reviewing mergers faces a “comprehensive and ambitious review,” according to the bloc’s competition boss Teresa Ribera, as she called for public input on how that reform should play out.

  • Lufthansa defends EUR6 billion pandemic bailout to EU’s top judges

    1 week ago | mlex.com | Nicholas Hirst

    By Nicholas Hirst ( May 7, 2025, 13:42 GMT | Insight) -- Judges at the EU's top court today heard an appeal by Deutsche Lufthansa to reinstate the EU authorization for its 6 billion-euro bailout during the coronavirus pandemic. The company said a lower court ruling underestimated the "urgency" of the support measures.

  • Apple fined EUR500 million for breaching EU’s DMA

    3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Nicholas Hirst

    By Nicholas Hirst ( April 23, 2025, 09:45 GMT | Insight) -- Apple’s fight with EU tech regulators over the fees it charges app developers on its devices and the limitations it places on them has escalated, with the European Commission announcing a fine of 500 million euros and fresh non-compliance allegations. Apple said regulators were “unfairly targeting” it and forcing it to give away its technology for “free.” The tech giant said it would appeal.

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Nicholas Hirst
Nicholas Hirst @nicholashirst_
18 Apr 25

Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH and a friend of Trump, said a failure to strike a deal with the US would be “the fault of Brussels.” https://t.co/Rj24ZKhTbK

Nicholas Hirst
Nicholas Hirst @nicholashirst_
17 Apr 25

RT @lewis_crofts: Now the US has gone and done it..... there's nothing holding back @Teresaribera from wrapping up her own case into #Googl…

Nicholas Hirst
Nicholas Hirst @nicholashirst_
17 Apr 25

US AI company Cerence intervened against Google in support of the @Kartellamt antitrust probe into car software. A reminder that US companies often benefit from these European cases. https://t.co/jnvW1NnXYR https://t.co/0kGD31E2p1