Calls for global market definitions are paradoxical, EU’s Loriot says
By Andrew Boyce ( October 23, 2025, 11:47 GMT | Insight) -- European merger enforcers can’t simply adopt global market definitions as a “magic solution” to clear dealmaking that risks harming competition, according to Guillaume Loriot, one of the European Commission’s most senior enforcers. He listed several “paradoxes” to calls by executives and governments pushing enforcers to call national markets as global to enable the fostering of European champions.European merger enforcers can’t simply adopt global market definitions as a “magic solution” to clear dealmaking that risks harming competition, according to one of the European Commission’s most senior enforcers....
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