This lunch debate will serve as an opportunity to discuss the role of merger control in enabling scale to foster European productivity growth and competitiveness.

In this context, it should also explore potential reforms to merger control policies to factor in dynamic effects such as innovation and investment in digital industries and beyond. It should also address the challenges EU regulators face in adapting the merger control framework to maintain a competitive edge in the face of digital disruption.

• Programme

  Opening remarks

  Andreas Schwab MEP and EIF Member

  Speakers

  Guillaume Loriot, Deputy Director-General for Mergers, DG COMP, European Commission

  Alberto Di Felice, Policy and Legal Counsel, DIGITALEUROPE

  Wolfgang Kopf, Senior Vice President for Group Public and Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Telekom

  Audrey Scozzaro Ferrazzini, Vice-President Government Affairs, Qualcomm Europe

  Exchange of views with the participants under the Chatham House rule