Tag: European Commission
EC OKs German Fund To Support Enterprises Affected by Coronavirus Outbreak
The European Commission has approved German plans to set up a fund with a budget of up to €500 billion (US$566.4 billion) for providing...
AMS Gains EU Antitrust Clearance for 4.6B Euro Osram Buy
Austrian sensor producer AMS on Monday, July 6, gained unconditional EU antitrust approval for its €4.6 billion (US$5.2 billion) acquisition of German lighting group...
EC Addresses The Issue Of Collective Bargaining For The Self-Employed
The European Commission is launching a process to ensure that the EU competition rules do not stand in the way of collective bargaining for...
European Commission Announces New Director-General For Legal Service
The European Commission has appointed Daniel Calleja Crespo as Director-General of its Legal Service, succeeding Luis Romero Requena, who will retire on 30 June....
EU Consults Stakeholders On The Market Definition Notice
The European Commission has published today a public consultation on the Market Definition Notice used in EU competition law. The open questionnaire will contribute...
Can This Be the New Normal? 10 Questions on the Proposed...
By: Alfonso Lamadrid (Chilling Competition)
Last week the European Commission launched a public consultation in relation to a proposed “new competition tool”. The impact of this “tool”...
EU Regulators Probe Czech State Aid
EU antitrust regulators launched an investigation into about €282 million (US$318 million) in Czech State aid granted to the country’s postal operator for providing...
Antitrust and Tech: Europe and the United States Really Do Differ,...
By Gregory J. Werden (U.S. Department of Justice, Retired)1
In Antitrust and Tech: Europe and the United States Differ, and It Matters (CPI Antitrust Chronicle,...
Anticompetitive Effects in EU Competition Law
By Pablo Ibañez Colomo (Chilling Competition)
I have uploaded a new paper on ssrn (see here) on Anticompetitive Effects in EU Competition Law.
What was the impetus...
Should The EU’s Forthcoming Ex Ante Regulation of Digital Gatekeepers be...
By Damien Geradin (ThePlatform Law Blog)
As discussed in a prior post, the European Commission is currently working on an ex ante regulation to control the market power...
