the competition commission

When the digital transformation blueprint for 2020-2024, with its roughly 450 state-changing projects, was unveiled four years ago, few could have predicted what would follow: A barrage of mergers and acquisitions in IT, an industry which in 2019 had shown a low degree of concentration, according to research by ICAP; a race against time for the timely completion of contracts, worth more than 1

Hello, now we knew it, we wrote about it, but who believed us? Stefanos is still here, but it’s like he’s not here at all; poor guy got swallowed up by vested interests. Even the last “pillars” of Democracy—Liagas and Kainourgiou, who supported him—have started to…waver, kind of erased him.

Dutch justice has found the Heineken group as jointly responsible for the anti-competitive practices implemented by its subsidiary in Greece, Athenian Brewery, in the domestic beer market, ruling on the lawsuit filed by the Brewery of Macedonia-Thrace (Vergina).

Hello, so these past few days I had a chance to go for a coffee with my main source at the M.M., and I had the opportunity to engage in some close-up gossip, so to speak.

The merger of Attica Bank and Pancreta Bank was finalized on Wednesday, creating the fifth largest bank in Greece by estimated assets.

According to the official announcement, the merger was completed within demanding timelines and at unprecedented speed - just weeks after the shareholders' agreement - signaling a new era for the unified bank and the country's financial system.

There is no such thing as a self-regulating market. Even liberals agree that there needs to be some degree of oversight - not enough to kill competition but enough to keep things on track.

The issue of expensive ferry ticket prices is on the table for yet another summer. The Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Christos Stylianides, has taken stronger initiatives to control the situation. Checks have already begun, he has sent a letter to the Competition Commission and a Price Observatory will be set up.

Can Greece be a pole of attraction in the field of mergers and acquisitions? What is the strategy that leads to a successful deal? Is the future of M&A "green"? These are just some of the questions the Mergers & Acquisitions Summit will attempt to answer.

Can Greece be a pole of attraction in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions? What is the strategy that leads to a successful deal? Is the future of M&A 'green'? These are just some of the questions that the participants of the "Mergers & Acquisitions Summit" will attempt to answer.

The government welcomes any investigation into allegations of fraud linked to the way €2.5 billion in European Union funds has been awarded to just 10 companies in Greece, Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis has said.