Translation of "Go shopping " (English → French) :

When they go shopping, they want answers to questions concerning ethical, ecological and social matters.

There are countless cases of the allocation of inappropriate market spaces to such companies. One example is Deutsche Post, which uses its monopolist’s profit in the postal services sector to overcome competition through take-overs too, as happened in the case of DHL International, which Deutsche Post acquired, exploiting its monopolist’s profit to knock a competitor out of the market. Not to mention EDF: France agreed to work towards opening up its energy sector within the country, in the sure knowledge that EDF, which was 100% state-owned and not quoted on the Stock Exchange and which could give loans guaranteed by the state, would acquire companies abroad, in Italy and elsewhere, in other words that it would ...[+++]go shopping, consolidating a dominant position in the European market. Then, in Italy, there is the case of a major television company such as the RAI, financed with huge sums of taxpayers’ money, which competes in every way with other television companies as a commercial channel.

There are countless cases of the allocation of inappropriate market spaces to such companies. One example is Deutsche Post , which uses its monopolist’s profit in the postal services sector to overcome competition through take-overs too, as happened in the case of DHL International , which Deutsche Post acquired, exploiting its monopolist’s profit to knock a competitor out of the market. Not to mention EDF : France agreed to work towards opening up its energy sector within the country, in the sure knowledge that EDF , which was 100% state-owned and not quoted on the Stock Exchange and which could give loans guaranteed by the state, would acquire companies abroad, in Italy and elsewhere, in other words that it would ...[+++]go shopping, consolidating a dominant position in the European market. Then, in Italy, there is the case of a major television company such as the RAI , financed with huge sums of taxpayers’ money, which competes in every way with other television companies as a commercial channel.

The 1989 Merger Regulation was based on the one-stop shop principle (i.e. the Commission was given sole control over all major cross-border mergers, whereas previously they had to go through a number of different procedures in individual EU countries).

If consumers are to have sufficient confidence in shopping outside their own Member State and take advantage of the Internal Market, they need assurance that if things go wrong they have effective mechanisms to seek redress.

If consumers' are to have sufficient confidence in shopping outside their own Member State and take advantage of the Internal Market, they need assurance that if things go wrong they can obtain redress.