Encouraging the EU’s firms to scale up is a laudable aim. Looser competition policy would not achieve it https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/03/26/europe-should-think-twice-before-weakening-its-merger-rules?taid=69c5292303ae3e0001e7c0ae&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=voante