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Pirelli's EU challenge to parental liability for power-cable fine rejected

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 28 Oct 2020 06:22
  • 28 Oct 2020 06:22
Pirelli today failed in its bid to persuade judges at the bloc's top court to overturn an EU antitrust decision that saw the company fined 67.3 million euros ($78 million) for its role in a power-cable cartel.

The Italian multinational disputed the European Commission’s assessment that it was fully liable for the illegal

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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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