Ribera Urges EU to Back Cross-Border Bank Mergers

Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s competition chief, has called on EU member states to support cross-border bank mergers as a route to completing the single market, intervening directly a day after Germany formally rejected Italian bank UniCredit’s offer for its German rival Commerzbank. Speaking at a conference on 17 June 2026, Ribera framed the completion … Read more