This contribution illustrates the European Commission's reliance on EU state aid rules to pursue a complex mix of competition and regulatory objectives in the framework of the financial crisis. Section 1 sketches the framework that enabled the Commission to review bailout plans and condition...

This Article examines the use of public interest factors in merger analysis. We begin with a review of the use of such factors in jurisdictions around the world and then focus on the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of public interest factors in the Philadelphia National Bank case and on South...