Finlandโs Henna Virkkunen has been appointed as the European Commission’s next executive vice-president for Tech Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, signalling a shift in EU digital policy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced…
Google’s anti-competitive advertising practices are harming UK publishers and advertisers, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found on Friday (6 September), amid similar investigations in the EU and US over the company’s monopolistic beha…
Martin Vladimirov is director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy. Announcing its plans for what could be called TurkStream 2 on Aug. 21, Turkey finally dropped all pretenses. According to the countryโs energy minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, the state-owned gas monopoly BOTAล would now be able export around [โฆ]
Following the recent US court ruling on Googleโs market dominance, Washington may be aligning more closely with the Brussels approach to tech competition regulation, hinting at possible enforcement measures.
European Commission came under heavy Italian political pressure to allow Lufthansa to buy Italy’s troubled airline.
There is an urgent need to consider solutions to overcome complex access challenges to combination therapies โ payers, policymakers and industry leaders must work together and act now to ensure access.
The EU is complicated, so let’s break it down for our cousins across the Atlantic.
The climbdown comes after the EU threatened legal action and capitals warned the fees were making it harder to quit Russian energy.
Stephen Weatherill
Jacques Delors Professor of
European Law (Emeritus), Faculty of Law and Somerville College, University of
Oxford
Photo: Lassana Diarra, by ะ ัะฑะฐะบะพะฒะฐ ะะปะตะฝะฐ, on Wikimedia Commons
In preparing this paper I have
bene…
Driven by political motivations and the upcoming EU elections, European regulators have unleashed a storm of enforcement actions and investigations related to the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), experts told Euractiv.
Penalty for breaching competition law is four times higher than forecast as Brussels looks to send message to tech firmsApple has been fined โฌ1.8bn (ยฃ1.5bn) by the EU after an investigation found it had limited competition from music streaming services…
The authors regularly advise the automotive and IT/tech industry. The views expressed in this article are personal. As things stand now, European manufacturers are at a disadvantage, as patent owners from around the world can exclude devices that implement standards from the market unless manufacturers give in to their royalty demands. The proposed EU SEP [โฆ]
As it waits for the AI Act to take effect, Brussels should use its existing powers under competition law and the Digital Markets Act to challenge Big Techโs growing influence over AI, writes Max von Thun.
As nationwide farmers’ protests continue, the German government wants to have the market power of supermarkets and the food industry scrutinised, blaming their price-setting power for the poor economic situation of many farms.
Professor Steve Peers, Royal
Holloway University of London
Photo credit: Pierre
Blachรฉ, via Wikicommons
*This blog post draws upon and
updates research for the 5th edition of EU
Justice and Home Affairs Law (OUP,
2023)
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Proposed EU regulation would mark a welcome return to balance and more transparency in standardized technology licensing.
As farmers continue to stage huge traffic-blocking protests across Germany, a growing number of voices within the ruling Greens are blaming major supermarket chains’ pricing policies for many farms’ currently dire economic situation.
Steve Weatherill, Somerville
College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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via Wikimedia
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Summary
The Court of Justiceโs rulings of
21 December 2023 found practices associated with prior approval of new…
The organizations were ‘abusing a dominant position,’ says Court of Justice.
A counterproposal to European Commissionโs far-reaching and very flawed standard-essential patents regulation.
Changes to the Competition Law, one of the first laws approved by Robert Ficoโs government, will create a tunnel towards the defence industry takeover, the oppositionโs For the People party and former deputy Prime Minister Veronika Remiลกovรก warned, add…
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is appealing the designation of its social media application as a gateway that would make the service subject to Europeโs strict regime of ex-ante antitrust rules.
Brussels delivers blow to agents by supporting cap on fees as dispute heads for EU’s top court.
UEFA faces challenge to its role governing the sport in Europe.
Clampdown comes at critical time for container companies whose earnings have fallen since the end of lockdown
The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday (6 September) its list of online services designated as “gatekeepers”, which will now have six months to adapt to strict antitrust practices or face up to 20% global annual turnover fines.
France’s Competition Authority suspects Apple of abusing a dominant market position and being non-transparent in how it tracks iOS users, according to a statement of objections sent to the company on Tuesday (25 July). In 2020, French trade assoc…
