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Comment: Microsoft and EU cloud lobby restart talks as odds of antitrust charges lengthen

By Andrew Boyce, Tono Gil and Nicholas Hirst
  • 07 Feb 2024 17:34
  • 07 Feb 2024 17:34
The odds of Microsoft’s cloud licensing business facing a full-scale EU antitrust probe are waning fast. And that observation appears to have been confirmed by today’s announcement of talks between Microsoft and its main industry critic in Brussels.
But while both sides arguably have an interest in doing a deal, the contours

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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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