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22/11/2008

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Mayer, Thomas

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Der Standard - Austria | 07/08/2008

No Central European oil corporation

The Austrian energy concern OMV has been prevented from taking over the Hungarian oil company MOL by concerns on the part of the EU Commission that the move would infringe antitrust regulations. The daily Der Standard welcomes the decision: "Once more the manager of a corporation with close ties to the state has spouted high phrases but reckoned without his host. In this case the host is not the MOL or the Hungarian government (which went against the spirit of the free market in fighting the OMV with antitrust laws and quirky nationalistic rhetoric). The host who scuttled plans for the construction of a quasi-monopolistic Central European oil company was the EU Commission in Brussels. But this will benefit consumers, because a successful takeover would have meant higher prices. The Viennese fuel traders were only thinking about themselves and their profits, but not about those at the fuel pumps."

Der Standard - Austria | 14/08/2006

The fight against terrorism in the EU

Thomas Mayer says he can't believe how uncoordinated the EU's reaction has been to the revelations about the planned attacks in London. "It's hard to believe that five years after the New York attacks there is apparently still no basic infrastructure for integrated, legally controlled pan-European police activities. What should be a priority for the EU if not those issues that are of most concern for EU citizens? But even more irritating is the fact that the intelligence and security services are being allowed to put people under surveillance as they see fit and according to each country's laws – and also in the legal grey zone. There is virtually no parliamentary control at a European level."

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