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Comment: EU antitrust guidance to telecom companies echoes 'comfort letters' of old

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 11 Mar 2020 07:15
  • 11 Mar 2020 07:15

When the EU's antitrust boss Margrethe Vestager hinted at the start of March that her service might start reassuring businesses that they were on the right side of the law, no one imagined the first example could come within a week.
But that is the upshot of a press statement

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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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