Tag: European Commission

Fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s avoided having to repay millions of euros in back taxes after EU antitrust regulators announced that its tax deal...

The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to determine whether BMW, Daimler and VW colluded to avoid competing with each other on clean...

Competition in the markets needs to be enhanced to show to people that the game is played on equal terms, EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager...

Deutsche Telekom's efforts to merge its Dutch business with local mobile rival Tele2 ran into problems Thursday, September 13, after the European Commission (EC)...

Chemicals company AkzoNobel has hired Gianni De Stefano from Hogan Lovells as its new global director of competition law, based in Brussels and Amsterdam. Gianni...

The European Commission’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager in March of this year appointed three digital experts to advise her on the challenges digitization could...

Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament, formally announced on Wednesday, September 5, that he is standing...

According to a report from Reuters, Hutchison received approval from EU antitrust regulators on Friday, August 31, for its €2.45 billion (US$2.9 billion) deal...

Spanish ethanol producer Abengoa and its Belgian peer Alcogroup will challenge the European Commission’s assertion that the companies colluded to fix ethanol price benchmarks,...

Swiss competition authority WEKO has declined to open a formal investigation into watchmakers over the supply of spare parts for independent watch repair shops. According...