How Monti Targets Mergers In The New Economy

Looks set to block Time Warner's merger with Britain's EMI and impose strict conditions on Time Warner's proposed merger with AOL, fearing the combinations will dominate online music markets. Vivendi's proposed takeover of Seagram faces close scrutiny.

Torpedoed MCIWorldCom's merger with Sprint and imposed stringent conditions on the tieup between Sweden's Telia and Norway's Telnor, which would dominate Internet-backbone networks. That deal later fell apart.