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Booking memo on Etraveli veto foreshadows scathing EU court appeal

By Natalie McNelis ( September 22, 2023, 11:24 GMT | Insight) -- Booking’s guns are at the ready to challenge the EU’s anticipated veto of its Etraveli acquisition, according to a memo to national competition authorities MLex has seen.  It’s a roadmap for the appeal that Booking has already vowed to lodge once the veto lands. In it, Booking criticizes the European Commission for abandoning the need to prove the threat of foreclosure in a conglomerate case, and says the regulator failed to prove the deal would lead to a significant impediment to effective competition, MLex has learned. Booking’s guns are at the ready to challenge the EU’s anticipated veto of its Etraveli acquisition, according to a memo to national competition authorities MLex has seen.  ...

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