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Spain’s new prices and investment remedies break with EU orthodoxy

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst ( February 6, 2026, 15:49 GMT | Comment) -- Telecom operators and other companies looking to assuage competition concerns from mergers with promises to invest may take heart from a decision by Spain’s competition watchdog. It has allowed two of the country's three main suppliers of home respiratory therapies to merge on the condition that they pledge to translate any cost savings into investment and not raise prices.A decision by Spain’s competition watchdog this week may be music to the ears of telecom companies and others that have been told by EU antitrust authorities that a promise to invest is not enough to clear their merger plans....

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