EU Warns Italy Over Meddling in UniCredit’s Banco BPM Deal

A Banco BPM bank branch in Milan.

Photographer: Francesca Volpi/Bloomberg

Italy has been hit by a preliminary European Union warning over its restrictions on UniCredit SpA’s planned takeover of Banco BPM SpA.

In a legal move that sets up a clash between Brussels and Rome, EU officials accused Giorgia Meloni’s government of potentially violating the bloc’s law in imposing national conditions on the deal.