Traduction de «sport où deux concurrents s'affrontent » (Français → Anglais) :

12. Points out that, in the case of modernising efforts and economic performance, the countries that are most successful are those that combine forward-looking and well-balanced structural reforms with higher-than-average investment in transport, information technology, research and development as well as innovation, education, lifelong learning and care facilities, and the renewal of reliable social networks; notes that, for the most part, the same Member States have a highly efficient and transparent administration, an innovative entrepreneurship environment, budget surpluses, lower-tha ...[+++]n-average debt rates and high-quality public spending, while showing signs of a contribution by technical progress to the national growth result that is almost twice the size of the EU average; concludes that those countries’ policies seeking to achieve high employment rates, including the employment of women and older workers, will enable the European Union to face with greater confidence present and future challenges such as an ageing population and growing competition as a result of globalisation;

The Commission’s market investigation showed that although both parties have a strong market position in the EEA, they would continue to face strong competitive pressure from imports, particularly from Asian producers, as well as from other competitors in the EEA.

The Commission has adopted two decisions demonstrating the limits to the application of the EC Treaty's competition rules to sport.

The Commission notes that sport comprises two levels of activity: on the one hand the sporting activity strictly speaking, which fulfils a social, integrating and cultural role that must be preserved and to which in theory the competition rules of the EC Treaty do not apply. On the other hand a series of economic activities generated by the sporting activity, to which the competition rules of the EC Treaty apply, albeit taking into account the specific requirements of this sector.

The operation aims at reintegrating two essentially complementary businesses in order to better face competition by global competitors such as ABB, Mitsubishi, Siemens or Westinghouse, all of whom currently propose an integrated offering.

What do you say to your opponents who argue that it would be unfair for the government to authorize the mergers without allowing them to enjoy from the outset all of the advantages that the mergers would bring to you and that another approach should be taken, perhaps legislative changes respecting the ownership regime, to give those banks that do not wish to merge and other financial sector players an opportunity to forge strategic alliances and establish multi-sectoral holdings, not only to offset the resulting higher concentration in the industry, but also to ensure that there are not just two major players in the financial sector to confront globalization and a ...[+++] more liberal financial services sector over the next ten years? What do you say to them when they argue that it would be better to have seven or eight players on the Canadian market to maintain a certain acceptable level of domestic competition to better serve consumers and meet the challenges of global competition?