Originally Posted by racedo
Grounds for completely ignoring as EU law trancends national laws.
Attempt by UK to force 2 companies headquartered and registered in another country will be interesting, it allows any 3rd country to do the same to UK companies.
This will not be lost on UK companies who will then see German courts intervening in UK companies using UKs own precedence.
Completely agree 100% and I've made this point several times on this forum, but the UK competition authority were told by the UK courts that they have the jurisdiction to investigate Ryanair's shareholding so obviously that's why they've gone ahead with it. But as you say, even if they rule against Ryanair it won't stick as they'll just be overruled by the ECJ and rightly so.
It's the equivilant of Ireland attempting to block IAG's takeover of bmi because they happened to operate routes to Ireland.