Palmieri S.
Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Union: Observations for Trade Union Organisations
Paper prepared for the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialist Seminar on Economic, Employment and Social implications of Restructurings.
Brussels, 14/15.10.02
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors that led to the growth of European and global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity over the past decade. As we will see in the first paragraph, there were 26,062 international M&A transactions during the first half of the 1990’s, rising to 50,787 transactions during the second half of the 1990’s.