Tag: EU
EU’s Vestager Calls To Relax Rules To Aid Sanction-Hit Companies
The European Commission on Thursday suggested temporarily relaxing the bloc’s state aid rules so member countries could help companies facing liquidity problems due to...
EU Prioritizes Gazprom Probe
The European Commission is monitoring Russian gas producer Gazprom as MEPs questioned energy commissioner Kadri Simson on Tuesday evening about anti-competitive behaviours that were...
EU Set To Approve Amazon’s $8.5B MGM Buy
Amazon is expected to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $8.5 billion buy of US movie studio MGM, a move that is set...
Czech Watchdog Mulls New Antitrust Laws After EU Pushback
The Czech Telecommunication (CTU) Office is drafting new measures to spur competition and designating incumbent MNOs as having significant market power.
Last month the EU’s...
EU Crypto Regulation Bill Goes To Vote Next Week
Following a debate over language that would have essentially banned bitcoin, a vote on the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) legislation is...
EU Stops Cooperation On Research With Russia
Following the Russian invasion against Ukraine, and in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, the European Commission has decided to suspend cooperation with Russian entities...
EU Not Convinced On Illumina Remedies For Grail Bid
US life sciences company Illumina's offer to cut prices and allow rivals continued access to its technologies has "yet to convince" EU antitrust regulators...
EU’s Competition Chief Vestager Comments On Ukraine Conflict
"The landscape of our foreign relations is changing. There is a turning point, a tremendous change for history at this moment," stated Margrethe Vestager,...
EU Commission Invites Comments On Revised Horizontal Agreement Rules
The European Commission launched a public consultation today, inviting all interested parties to comment on two draft revisions to the Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations...
Fines Over EU Data Breach Laws Pass $1.1 Billion
Data breaches in Europe can be extremely expensive, with possible penalties reaching up to 4% of a company’s annual turnover, thanks to the General...
