Joaqun Almunia, the EU competition commissioner, is to give the proposed deal the OK without any remedies, despite complaints from would-be rivals over Microsoft's "bundling" the software with Windows, the newspaper said.
EU approval would follow the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's go-ahead in June.
Competition reviews are still under way in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Taiwan, the FT said.
Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, its biggest-ever, is expected by the end of the year.
-- Written by Joseph Woelfel
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