The European Union’s (EU) merger control regime is transitioning into a new era. 20 years after the reform that was meant to bring ‘more economics’ into me
The 2023 Booking/eTraveli merger prohibition by the European Commission (EC) was the first EC merger prohibition concerning digital platforms. Besides some
As a new European Commission takes office and a new Competition Commissioner is appointed, this JECLAP Special Issue reflects on merger control, its evolut
With the (belated) transposition of the EU Representative Actions Directive (RAD)1 on 13 October 2023 by means of the RAD Implementing Act, the German legi
When we speak about international cooperation, many successful examples come to mind. How financial regulators constrained safe havens to share information
On 27 March 2023, the Commission has published its ‘Article 102 package’: in an ‘Amending Communication’,1 it has modified its so-called ‘2008 Priorities G
Given the increased importance of intellectual property (`IP') protection in our modern economy, we now find ourselves faced with issues on the IP-Competit
It is not news to say that global antitrust policy and enforcement issues are becoming increasingly complex. In the midst of a ‘poly-crisis’ encompassing b
We have made amazing progress in integrating climate change and sustainability considerations into competition policy in recent years. In 2018, this was a fring
Merger regulation is a fundamental instrument by which competition authorities control the structure of an industry. Despite its relevance, the EU Treaties
Competition law has been used to target several practices by large online platforms, like Google, Amazon, and Facebook (Meta) through the prohibition against ab
On 14 December 2022, barely 19 months after the European Commission launched its proposal on this topic, the European Parliament and the Council signed the
The ongoing debate on competition law and policy in the digital economy raises the question whether the current competition rules and tools are sufficient to de
Procedural fairness has been a hot topic within the competition law community for some time. However, a series of bad behaviours by competition authorities