Tag: EU
EU Will Announce Draft Rules To Tackle State-Backed Foreign Buyers
European antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will next week issue draft legislation aimed at staving off a potential post-coronavirus buying spree of cheap assets, a...
The EU Regulation Of The Data-Driven Economy
By Bjorn Lundqvist (Stockholm University)
Powerful platforms that ‘hoard’ data in ecosystems, prevents the possibility to access or port data, or restrict interoperability may...
EU Looks Into Tax-Free Airport Shopping
Swiss payments company Global Blue is facing a formal antitrust complaint before EU regulators over allegations that it is breaking competition law by signing...
Dublin Wants “Healthy & Fair” Competition In Corporate Tax
Ireland will push for a global agreement on corporate taxation which “accommodates” its current low rate and allows “healthy and fair tax competition”, the...
EU & China To Discuss Competition Policy Priorities
Officials from the EU and China will meet online from April 26 to 28, 2021, for technical discussions on competition law and enforcement. The...
EU Outlines Ambitious AI Regulations
European officials want to limit police use of facial recognition and ban the use of certain kinds of AI systems, in one of the...
EU Probes Illumina’s $7.1B Grail Acquisition
EU antitrust regulators will examine Illumina’s proposed US$7.1 billion acquisition of cancer test maker, the European Commission announced on Tuesday, April 20, following a...
EC Fines Railways For Violating Antitrust Laws
The European Commission has imposed fines of €48 million in total on three railway companies in Germany, Austria, and Belgium for breaching antitrust rules,...
ECJ Throws Out Food Packaging Cartel Appeal
The European Court of Justice dismissed the appeal by Italmobiliare against the General Court's judgment upholding the fine imposed by the European Commission for...
EU Regulators To Decide On $9B SK Hynix-Intel Deal By May
EU antitrust enforcers will decide by May 20 whether to clear South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix's US$9 billion buy of Intel's NAND memory chip business,...
