Anti-trust regulators in the European Union will approve Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard as soon as this coming Monday, May 15, according to a report from Reuters.
The European Commission had said a decision would be delivered by May 22, but the announcement could come as soon as a week before then, Reuters said.
An approval by the European Commission is no big surprise given what Microsoft president Brad Smith has said. Regulators in the EU have been open to having “more of a conversation” about the deal compared to the UK. Smith went on to say that the EU is a more attractive place to do business than the UK, according to him.