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…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last decade, you’ll know that private enforcement of antitrust is now big business, spurred on by the Damages Directive and industrious claimant-side law…
The application of competition rules to the conduct and concentrations of employers has been called ‘the new frontier for competition policy’ (see here). This so-called ‘labour antitrust’ has been…
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is now applicable. Following the 6-month interim period where gatekeepers had the opportunity to adapt their business models to the regulation, the DMA now requires them…
The World's first hard-law horizontal legislation on artificial intelligence is currently nearing political agreement between the European Union's (EU) three legislative branches, the European…
Lawmakers and Amazon.com are involved in a constant cat-and-mouse game. Amazon.com is the big winner when consumers and businesses extensively use its digital ecosystem. As a reaction, lawmakers…
The current policy debate
The European Commission will table two main legislative proposals on digital platforms: the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with new rules regarding the behaviour of gatekeeper…
Starting in 2016, the EU set out the shift to high-capacity 5G networks with the adoption of the “5G for Europe Action Plan”.[1] These days, the buildout of the 5G network throughout Europe is…
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…
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…
