It seems a fitting end for the battered European take-over code that the final version should limp over the finishing line just before Christmas to little notice and even less fanfare.
Having once been promoted as a cornerstone of a modern, competitive European Union (EU), 14 years of political wrangling has, as was looking increasingly likely throughout 2003, resulted in a finished product stripped of any meaningful provisions.
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