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EU anti-trust regulators have blocked for now Lufthansa’s planned minority stake in the Italian airline ITA Airways after a preliminary investigation showed the deal could reduce competition on some routes, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The commission said there is only limited competition from other airlines on non-stop routes to and from some Central European destinations. ITA was formed in 2020 after a restructuring of the failed carrier Alitalia, which the government in Rome took over in March of the same year when various takeover bids failed. After months of negotiations, Germ…

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