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Comment: Air Canada has a job to convince EU regulators that Transat is a failing firm

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 26 Mar 2021 12:24
  • 26 Mar 2021 12:24
Air Canada already had its work cut out to persuade EU regulators that Transat is a failing firm and so should warrant an exemption from merger rules. After comments yesterday by a senior EU competition official, its task seems even harder.
The failing firm defense allows the European Commission to

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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