By Andrew Boyce ( June 3, 2026, 11:12 GMT | Insight) -- EU governments shouldn’t misuse rules enabling them to intervene on public security grounds in mergers that pose no threat to competition, especially when they claim to want bigger companies, a senior official in the European Commission's antitrust department has said. The EU's merger regulator was looking at this very closely and needed to act if it happened, he said.EU governments shouldn’t misuse rules enabling them to intervene on public security grounds in mergers that pose no threat to competition, especially when they claim to want bigger companies, a senior European Commission official has said....
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