It was a different time. I reckon the same acquisition, today, would not get approval from the much-beefed-up EU regulatory authority (i.e. the competition comm

It was a different time. I reckon the same acquisition, today, would not get approval from the much-beefed-up EU regulatory authority (i.e. the competition commissioner). It's too late to fix the past, but we can avoid making the same mistakes in the future, if we continue to work towards federal structures.