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Investment mustn’t ‘distract’ EU regulators from prices, Loriot says

By Andrew Boyce ( May 7, 2025, 15:00 GMT | Insight) -- EU competition regulators weighing deals in the telecom sector and elsewhere should not allow potential increases in investment or productivity to blind them to price increases that hurt consumers, according to the bloc’s top merger official. “I think the big trap for us is not to think that now investment is a more important priority than price competition,” Guillaume Loriot told a conference in Edinburgh.EU competition regulators weighing deals in the telecom sector and elsewhere should not allow potential increases in investment or productivity to blind them to price increases that hurt consumers, according to the bloc’s top merger official....

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