Tag: Competition
India: Finance minister wants action on global firms abusing dominance
India’s finance minister on Friday asked the country’s antitrust regulator to take action against global companies having no local presence but abusing their dominant...
UK: Competition regulator reprimanded RBS and Santander
Britain’s competition watchdog has ordered Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander to appoint auditors to check how they remind customers who have payment protection...
Mexico: Regulator fines Cancun airport US$3.7M for taxi monopoly
Mexico's anti-monopoly agency has fined the Cancun International Airport the equivalent of about US$3.7 million for not allowing more taxis to compete and lower...
Greece: Gov’t nominates professor for Competition Committee President
The government nominated Ioannis Lianos, professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at the University College of London for president of the Hellenic...
France: Regulator clears takeover of the Ligue 1 soccer club OGC...
France’s competition authority said it had cleared the takeover of the Ligue 1 soccer club OGC Nice by INEOS, the energy group run by...
Canada: Commissioner advocates for increased competition in alcohol beverage
In an open letter to the Honourable Rod Phillips, Minister of Finance of Ontario, the Commissioner of Competition, Matthew Boswell, wrote that Ontario's recent...
EU: Mitsotakis and Vestager talk competition commission bill
Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday, August 9, discussed with the European Union’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager a new government legislation that aims to...
Australia: Regulator concerned Saputo-Lion deal could hurt farmgate milk price
The Australian competition regulator is worried about less farmgate milk price competition if Canada's Saputo takes over the cheese processing operations of its Tasmanian...
Canada: Study finds that many Canadians benefit from choice of Internet...
As of 2018, more than 1 million Canadian households had chosen an independent provider for their high-speed Internet connection.
That’s one of the findings of...
EU: Commission accuses Deutsche Telekom’s Czech unit of blocking rivals
EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday, August 7, charged Deutsche Telekom’s Czech unit—O2 CZ—and Czech telecoms infrastructure provider Cetin with restricting competition via their network...