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Resilience ‘inherent’ to competition policy, EU’s Loriot says

By Andrew Boyce ( January 22, 2026, 15:02 GMT | Insight) -- The need to make markets “resilient” to shocks is “inherent” to competition policy, according to the EU’s top merger official. Guillaume Loriot pointed to a speech by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney on Tuesday that stressed the need for countries to diversify their ties with others to “hedge against uncertainty.” That message was not about competition policy but applies to it, Loriot said, while noting that the term "resilience" means different things to different companies.The need to make markets “resilient” to shocks is “inherent” to competition policy, according to the EU’s top merger official....

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