In the context of ongoing antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc.'s ('Facebook') data-related practices (AT.40628) and Facebook marketplace (AT.40684), on 13 March 2020 the European Commission ('…
After two rounds of public consultations that ended 8 September 2020, the European Commission (‘Commission’) appears to be on track and make its proposals for new enforcement powers more concrete.…
Few days ahead of a historic presidential election, the political pressure accrues and has already made one collateral casualty: Google. David Cicilline (D-RI) has issued a House Report where big…
On 21 October 2020, during the kick-off event of the EU-funded Twinning Project, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") announced that it is preparing the draft law that will introduce…
What are commitments?
The recent effort by the Commission to settle the Aspen case suggests that commitment decisions are the preferred route to settle complex excessive pricing cases at EU-level…
On 13 October 2020, the European Commission (EC) published a call for contributions to gather ideas on how EU competition rules (State aid, antitrust, and merger control) and sustainability policies…
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the already struggling Indian economy and the sky-high growth in the cartel cases in the country comes as no surprise. However, given the current…
On 5 October 2020, the General Court of the European Union (GC) partially annulled decisions of the European Commission (EC) to order on-the-spot inspections (dawn raids) of a number of French…
EU FDI Screening Regulation: separating security and competition concerns
Regulation 2019/452 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union (EU FDI Screening…
A welcome post by the new Deputy Editor
Introduction and summary
In the recent Anesco case, the ECJ held the preliminary request of the Spanish National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC)…
