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Microsoft will next need to defend its $68.7bn bid to buy Activision Blizzard in front of the EU, a fresh report has cl…

Microsoft will next need to defend its $68.7bn bid to buy Activision Blizzard in front of the EU, a fresh report has claimed.reported that Microsoft is set to receive an antitrust warning from the European Commission, setting out the organisation's objections to the deal.

This document will be shared with Microsoft in the coming weeks, it's understood, ahead of the EU's 11th April deadline for its decision on the deal.The suggestion that Microsoft will face scrutiny from EU regulators does not come as a surprise, especially considering the stances already taken by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority and the US Federal Trade Commission , which have both moved to check the deal.

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