"to" is part of the "to allow" construction, the infinitive of the verb. The "not" simply negates (i.e. says "do the opposite") to this.
It would be equivalent to say this:
It is legitimate for Slovenia to prohibit the merger.
It is legitimate for Slovenia to disallow the merger.
Never is a negative time adverb meaning 'not at any time', but no/not (variant combining forms) is a much more versatile and important chunk of English. Not is just one of the forms it uses when it's a separate word, instead of existing combined in a compound or contraction.
It's the basic Negation marker in English. So it can be adjective and adverb, but mostly it's fused into phrases and contractions, of which never is one. Never is a contraction of no/not + ever, just like other contractions of no/not:
- never = not ever
- none = not one
- neither = not either
- nor = not or
- no way
- nowhere
- nobody
- no one
- nothing
There are corresponding contractions with the Negative Polarity Item any, like:
- anyway
- anywhere
- anybody
- anyone
- anything
which are Negative Polarity Items, like ever.
Ever means what *anywhen would mean, if there were an English word *anywhen that was as commonly used as anywhere; in the same way, both of them means what *all two of them would mean, if that phrase weren't ungrammatical.
More important, as a Negative Polarity Item, ever can only occur within the scope of a Negative Trigger (or, as in never, bonded morphologically to its trigger).
Thus, ever is fine in these 3 sentences, with Negative Triggers (has)n't, few, and doubt,
- He hasn't ever seen it. ~ Few people have ever seen it. ~ I doubt he's ever seen it.
but it makes the corresponding affirmative sentences ungrammatical, though they're OK without ever:
- *He has ever seen it. ~ *A few people have ever seen it. ~ *I think he's ever seen it.
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In this sentence, the use of how is exactly parallel to some uses of whom.
However, in these uses, whom is officially classified as a relative pronoun, and how as a relative adverb (although sometimes it is called a subordinating conjunction). It makes you wonder whether the definitions of all these parts of speech were designed with a different language in mind, and the grammarians are shoehorning English into them as best they can.