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Veolia's Hungarian buy shows EU merger watchdog looking beyond market shares, Loriot says

By Nicholas Hirst ( November 18, 2025, 18:09 GMT | Insight) -- Veolia’s success in gaining EU merger approval for its acquisition of a Hungarian power plant despite a position of dominance shows how officials look beyond market shares to grapple with how markets will develop in the future.Veolia’s success in gaining EU merger approval for its acquisition of the Gönyű power plant in Hungary despite it then holding more that 50 percent of the market shows how officials look beyond mere market shares, according to a senior EU official....

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