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Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Overseas: EU Likely to Give Go-Ahead, but Another Hurdle Looms in the U.K.

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Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Overseas: EU Likely to Give Go-Ahead, but Another Hurdle Looms in the U.K.
Jun 25, 2026 8:21am PT Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Overseas: EU Likely to Give Go-Ahead, but Another Hurdle Looms in the U.K.

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Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

@NickVivarelli See All Paramount Warner Bros Studio Merger Water Towers Paramount: Michael Buckner/Variety; Warner Bros.: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

With Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery likely to soon get the go-ahead from the European Union, the next question will be whether the U.K.’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will follow suit.

The prospects are that the U.K. won’t block the deal, but may throw in an extra hurdle, according to Max von Thun, director of Europe at the Brussels-based Open Markets Institute. 

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