During 2025, we made sure to publish many remarkable, insightful, and well-written contributions by our authors at Kluwer Competition Law Blog. We want to thank every single author who published with…
Winter Break As in previous years, the Kluwer Competition Law Blog will take a short winter break. There will be no new posts published between 24 December and 6 January. We would like to thank our…
With the Sustainability Omnibus of last week still keeping us in shock and the incoming Digital Omnibus already looming over us, it is important to pause, take a step back, and ask ourselves, what…
Over the hills of the City of the Renaissance, early career competition law scholars from around the world gathered from 6 – 7 November 2025 to revamp competition law within two days.In this spirit,…
The central purpose of the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is clear: to tackle distortions in the internal market caused by subsidies granted by non-EU states. But what if these subsidy…
On 23 May 2025, the Higher Regional Court of Cologne dismissed an application for an interim injunction filed by the German consumer association Verbraucherzentrale NRW against Meta’s planned use of…
Transaction lawyers across the EU are by now sufficiently familiar with a third screening tool, alongside merger control and foreign subsidy control: foreign direct investment (FDI) screening. As the…
On 24 September 2024, the European Commission (EC) issued the long-awaited first decision (under phase II of the concentration tool) of the new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). It took another…
Recently, the European Union’s industrial policy has undergone a renaissance. Faced with mounting geopolitical uncertainties, increased global competition, and the urgency of “twin transitions” …
