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Front pages of Belgian newspapers published in French

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology

July 03, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe

Rossel-IPM merger wins Belgian approval with media plurality safeguards
Football in colors of the Brazilian flag

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

July 03, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

Soccer bloc FFU faces full-form antitrust review in Brazil
Michelle Bowman

Financial Services

July 02, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US Fed’s Global Systemically Important Bank plan `misses the mark,’ group says

Antitrust View More

Lenaerts set to be reappointed as judge for EU top court

July 06, 2026 | Jean Comte

Europe

Koen Lenaerts, a judge at the EU higher-tier court and currently the president of the institution, is on track to be reappointed for another mandate, according to documents seen by MLex. EU member states are s... (more story)

EU's win against Google eases burden on antitrust investigators

July 06, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

EU judges have done the bloc’s antitrust investigators a favor. In last week’s defeat for Google, the Court of Justice ruled that regulators don’t have to construct a detailed hypothetical alternative world — ... (more story)

Red Bull files appeal at top EU court over dawn raid costs

July 06, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

Europe

Red Bull is turning to the EU’s highest court to seek hundreds of thousands of euros in compensation after the bloc’s antitrust regulator conducted dawn raids at its premises and then continued them remotely i... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

UK finance regulator told to prepare for increasingly capable AI

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Adapting the UK regulatory framework to increasingly capable AI, monitoring the shift to autonomous models and building AI-enabled supervision should be among the priorities for the UK financial ... (more story)

China issues new guidelines on deployment, use of AI agents

July 06, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China’s National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee, or TC260, has officially released security guidelines for companies to guard against security risks in their deployment ... (more story)

China seeks to rewrite internet rulebook, expand AI and platform oversight

July 06, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China has proposed a sweeping rewrite of the country's foundational rules for internet information services, seeking to build a single compliance framework that would significantly expand oversight of the broa... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

CPPIB, Equinix file buyout of data-center provider atNorth for EU clearance

July 06, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe, North America

Canadian pension fund CPPIB and digital infrastructure company Equinix have sought EU approval for their plan to jointly acquire Nordic data center provider atNorth. The European Commission has set an Aug. 11 ... (more story)

New EU merger guidelines' promised dynamism put to test by UPM-Sappi JV

July 06, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

UPM and Sappi’s €1.4 billion paper manufacturing joint venture is testing the EU merger regulator’s thinking on "pivotality," fixed costs and out-of-market benefits — all concepts that are part of the regulato... (more story)

Auchan’s transfer of 167 stores to Intermarché, Netto cleared in France

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Auchan's transfer of 167 supermarkets and hypermarkets to the Intermarché and Netto banners has won unconditional approval from France’s competition authority. The regulator said the joint ventur... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

EU govts want revised cybersecurity supply-chain rules to give them more control

July 06, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Europe

EU proposals for managing cybersecurity risks in ICT supply chains are getting pushback from member states, with many calling for greater national control over politically sensitive decisions, according to a d... (more story)

Porn platforms’ risk assessments under EU digital law fall short, report says

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos failed to fully meet any of the nine risk-assessment criteria reviewed by the Digital Intimacy Coalition, according to a new report. The analysis says the platforms... (more story)

Big porn sites fail to meet EU risk assessment standards, advocacy group says

July 06, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Three major porn platforms — Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos — fall short of basic Digital Services Act risk-assessment standards, according to a new analysis by the Digital Intimacy Coalition. The coalition sh... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Louis Vuitton win over Molly Tea fuels trademark debate in China

July 06, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

Louis Vuitton Malletier has won a trademark-infringement lawsuit against Chinese milk tea chain Molly Tea, in a ruling that has sparked debate over how far trademark law should protect a four-petal flower logo.

Japanese court says Olympics.com articles keep Olympic trademark alive

July 06, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court upheld the IOC's "Gorin" trademark, ruling that articles published on Olympics.com constituted trademark use, defeating a non-use challenge and preserving registration ... (more story)

Big Tech's video alliance needs EU scrutiny, lawmaker Schwab says

July 03, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

The Alliance for Open Media, which is backed by the likes of Apple and Google, should face EU scrutiny under competition and tech gatekeeper rules, an influential lawmaker has urged. Andreas Schwab has written... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

UK fraud agency closes Signature criminal probe

July 02, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

An investigation into development and investment company, Signature Group, which collapsed with debts of £140 million six years ago has been closed without charges by the UK fraud agency Thursday. An Serious F... (more story)

Australia's AML/CTF reforms bring Privacy Act obligations to 100,000 entities

July 02, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Oceania

Australia has extended its anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regime to lawyers, accountants and real estate agents, while also bringing more than 100,000 businesses within the scope of the 1... (more story)

EagleBank allegedly allowed decade-long US kiting scheme, document says

July 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A friend and former business partner of EagleBank’s ex-chairman and chief executive, and the friend’s son, were able to carry out a check kiting scheme through the bank for more than a decade, according to a d... (more story)

Financial Services View More

EU businesses’ sustainability reporting simplified by the EU Commission

July 03, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU businesses’ reporting on sustainability issues is simplified by the revised reporting standards adopted on Friday by the European Commission. The measures, an implementing text, reduce the num... (more story)

Lawmakers warmer toward more EU-level capital markets oversight than govts

July 03, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

EU lawmakers are pushing for more EU-level oversight of capital markets than national governments in a jumbo legislative package which aims to foster a more efficient, integrated, and competitive financial sys... (more story)

Future of UK retail payments ecosystem laid out in long-term strategy

July 03, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK government has set out a long-term strategy to modernize retail payment infrastructure, outlining priorities that will affect the likes of banks, payment providers and other fintech compan... (more story)

Trade View More

EU countries divided about investment threshold in planned clean industry law

July 06, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Europe

EU member states have differing views on the size of foreign direct investment that would trigger supervision from the European Commission in a planned law which aims to strengthen Europe's industrial capacity... (more story)

EU Commission's appeal against Çolakoğlu Metalurji court win published

July 06, 2026

Europe, Middle East

MLex Summary: The European Commission's pleas against a ruling that sided with Turkish exporting producer Çolakoğlu Metalurji in its appeal against EU measures to tackle avoidance of dumping duties on imports ... (more story)

EU tariffs on Turkish hot-rolled flat iron products come under expiry review

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Punitive duties of up to 7.3 percent in place on imports of certain hot-rolled flat products or iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel from Turkey into the European Union are now under scrutiny to ... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU outlines data-protection approach in enforcing foreign-subsidies law

July 01, 2026

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has adopted internal rules allowing it to restrict certain data-protection rights when conducting investigations under the EU's power to patrol foreign subsidies. In a dec... (more story)

PostNord's 2017 capital injection into Post Danmark undergoing state aid probe

June 30, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: PostNord Group's capital injection of 1 billion Danish krone (approximately €134 million) into its Post Danmark subsidiary in 2017 is undergoing an in-depth probe to assess whether it was in line... (more story)

Open Markets says US Supreme Court 'grossly usurped' Congress in Slaughter case

June 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The Open Markets Institute said the US Supreme Court has "grossly usurped Congress' constitutional authority" by ruling the president could remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will, ... (more story)

Energy View More

New 'small mid-cap company' category backed by EU lawmakers in committee

July 02, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers in committee backed new rules creating a new category of small mid-cap companies, following a provisional agreement with member states earlier this month. The agreed text will now go... (more story)

EU clean-energy projects face shorter approval deadlines under lawmakers' plan

July 02, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Renewable energy developers, grid operators and storage companies could face faster permitting decisions under draft rules backed Thursday by the European Parliament’s energy committee. Part of t... (more story)

EU power plan, emissions system review, banking report postponed to July 17

July 02, 2026 | Helena Freitas

Europe

The EU’s electrification action plan, the review of the bloc’s Emissions Trading System, network-charges measures and a bank competitiveness report are set to be unveiled on July 17, two days later than initia... (more story)

Technology View More

Meta documents on allowed 'offensive' speech scrutinized at Australian inquiry

July 06, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Oceania

Meta Platforms told an Australian royal commission that its moderation policies allow some offensive statements, including claims such as “immigrants are criminals,” “Black people are more violent than whites,... (more story)

EU online commerce law must force clear labeling of influencer marketing, groups say

July 06, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU’s regulation on online commerce should force platforms to clearly label influencer marketing, 15 advocacy groups said in a joint letter on Monday. In a push for the upcoming Digital Fairne... (more story)

China proposes unified internet rules covering AI, platforms, content services

July 06, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China's cyberspace regulator on Friday proposed a sweeping overhaul of the country's foundational rules for internet information services, consolidating two decades of piecemeal platform regulati... (more story)