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E.On, RWE see off last EU court appeals of asset swap

By Andrew Boyce ( March 19, 2026, 16:16 GMT | Insight) -- German energy companies E.On and RWE have seen an end to six years of EU court litigation over a 2018 asset swap — after the bloc’s top court rejected German utilities’ appeals against E.On’s side of the deal. The Court of Justice said the European Commission was right to review the parts of the asset swap separately, rather than as a “single concentration,” pointing to how the acquiring companies, and the assets being bought, were different in each transaction.German energy companies E.On and RWE have seen an end to six years of EU court litigation over a 2018 asset swap between them — after the bloc’s top court rejected a group of German utilities’ appeals against E.On’s side of the deal....

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