On 27 April, the European Commission (EC) published the draft measures it seeks to impose on Google to guide the development of its operating system (OS) towards its integration with AI-reliant…
ABSTRACTArticle 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act obliges Google, as the sole designated gatekeeper for online search engine services, to share ranking, query, click and view data with third-party…
On 5 February, the German competition authority announced its latest development surrounding its capture of digital market power. In its press release, it highlighted that it would be fining Amazon…
Killer acquisitions are not a standalone category or type of transaction, but a theory of harm used in merger control to explain how certain acquisitions of nascent or innovative firms may undermine…
At the end of William Wyler’s Roman Holiday (1953), Gregory Peck leaves the Palazzo Colonna Gallery behind, symbolising the bittersweet end to his romance with Audrey Hepburn in the movie (apologies…
Digital markets are increasingly being dominated by large digital platforms, with the consequent problems that this poses from the point of view of the competitive functioning of the markets, both…
The Brazilian Federal Government proposed to the Brazilian Congress on the 17th of September an amendment to its competition law regime via Bill No. 4675/2025 (the Bill). In essence, the proposed…
In recent years, hub and spoke practices have been a hot topic for competition authorities all around the world. In Spain, the National Commission on Markets and Competition (the “CNMC”) recently…
After several years of investigation, the Commission finally delivered its decision in the case of Facebook Marketplace, where it found that Facebook had abused its dominant position, resulting in a…
