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The European Commission has unconditionally approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition by Google of Wiz. The Commission concluded that the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area ('EEA').

The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Meta, setting out its preliminary
view that Meta breached EU antitrust rules by excluding third party Artificial Intelligence (‘AI')
assistants from accessing and interacting with users on WhatsApp.

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a rescue loan of up to €390 million to Acciaierie d'Italia ('AdI', formerly ILVA), Italy's main integrated steel producer.

The European Commission has approved a €3 billion German State aid scheme to support strategic investments that add clean technology (cleantech) manufacturing capacity in line with the objectives of the Clean Industrial Deal.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess, under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation ('FSR'), the activities of Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ('Goldwind') in the production and sale of wind turbines and the provision of related services within the EU.

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €3.1 billion Spanish scheme to support the production of electricity from new or substantially refurbished highly efficient combined heat and power (‘CHP') plants.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether an arbitration award, in which Bulgaria is ordered to pay compensation to ACF Renewable Energy Limited for changes to a renewable electricity support measure, is in line with EU State aid rules.

EU Member States spent 90% of their State aid in 2024 to support EU priorities, according to the
European Commission's 2025 State aid Scoreboard, published today.

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €200 million German scheme to support the production in Canada of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives, known as renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs).