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Unilever boosted by EU legal opinion in spat over EUR60 million antitrust fine

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 14 Jul 2022 14:14
  • 14 Jul 2022 14:14
Unilever has won the backing of a legal opinion to the EU's top court in a dispute over exclusive ice-cream distribution deals and an antitrust fine of 60 million euros ($60 million) imposed by the Italian competition authority.

Today Advocate General Athanasios Rantos said a competition regulator is always obliged t

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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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