EU Commission: Competition - 13/10/08

Commissioner Neelie Kroes hosts high-level conference on the benefits to the economy and consumers of competition policy (on 13/10)
The benefits to the economy and consumers of competition policy will be the focus of a high-level conference in Brussels on Monday 13 October hosted by European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes Commissioner Kroes intends to highlight the substantial and proven benefits to consumers of the EU's competition policy, comment on recent problems in financial markets and set out the concrete benefits of the state aid rules (in particular in limiting risks of beggar thy neighbour policies which could aggravate present problems). French Prime Minister François Fillon will address the conference, together with a number of other high-level speakers.
[Europa]