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Teresa Ribera

What's on Teresa Ribera's mind?

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Rewriting the merger guidelines 30% · newTalking to China anyway 22% · newWhy Washington spared Google 17% Softer landing for industry 12% everything else 19%
#1
Ribera promises the final merger guidelines will spell out scale, resilience and efficiencies

The competition chief says the finished text will explain how big is too big — and when bigger is fine.

Resilience, efficiencies to receive further detail in upcoming final EU merger guidelines, Ribera says

Global Competition Review · 2026-09-07
our translation

she is trying to give european champions room to grow without saying 'we are loosening merger control'. the vocabulary — resilience, efficiencies, scale — is the loophole, and she wants it written down before anyone can call it a favour.

new — Final guidelines text still unpublishedvery sure · 3 sources
#2
Ribera tells the EU to talk to China — and to defend itself while doing it
new — POLITICO interview ran this weekpretty sure · 2 sources
#3
"Respectfully curious": Ribera wants to know why a US judge let Google off
US remedies ruling still unansweredpretty sure · 2 sources
#4
Innovation, scale, competition — Ribera insists all three fit in one rulebook
Scale and resilience written into draftpretty sure · 2 sources
wednesday, september 9
Redline another pass of the final merger guidelines text(reported)
Ask the team for the full US Google remedies judgment(reported)
Take the calls from capitals that heard "talk to China"(safe bet)
Check which quotes from the interview travelled furthest(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Ribera: Resilience, efficiencies to receive further detail in upcoming final merger guidelines

news.google.com · 2026-09-09

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