The future of EU telecoms rules had national regulators, the European Commission’s competition directorate (DG COMP) and the EU executive’s connectivity directorate (DG CNECT) battling it out at an event in Brussels.
The German government announced on Tuesday (4 June) that it has received approval in principle from Brussels to allocate subsidies worth €1.75 billion to coal major LEAG but with the payout of one-third of the sum contingent upon future power and CO2 p…
Proposed EU regulation would mark a welcome return to balance and more transparency in standardized technology licensing.
As the Commission prepares to designate digital ‘gatekeepers,’ here’s how the EU’s new Big Tech competition rulebook will shake out.
Florian Ederer is a newly minted U.S. citizen but also an Austrian — and has no history of consulting for Big Tech companies.
The competition chief’s future hangs on Spanish election results as much as on her own powers of persuasion.
The Commission will need to either extend the current chief economist’s term or have a deputy step up in an acting capacity.
US economist Fiona Scott Morton has withdrawn from a top EU job, after much controversy over her non-European nationality and possible conflicts of interest since she was appointed.
EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager backed on Tuesday (18 July) American Fiona Scott Morton as the most qualified candidate to be the chief economist of the Directorate-General for Competition, after her appointment stirred controversy and drew criticis…
The European Parliament has weighed into the row over the appointment of the American former tech lobbyist, Fiona Scott Morton, as the chief economist of the European Commission’s powerful competition department, demanding that the EU executive re-open…
The European Commission’s appointment of an American economist to a top job in its competition department has prompted a backlash from French politicians.
