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Miculas' success at UK courts sparks legal action by EU

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 09 Feb 2022 06:08
  • 09 Feb 2022 07:08
Romania's arbitration award to Viorel and Ioan Micula has sparked a legal dispute between the EU and the UK, after the two jurisdictions' top courts arrived at different conclusions over the validity of the payout.

The European Commission today said it was filing legal action against the UK over a 202

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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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