2021 looks set to be a busy year for antitrust enforcement and regulation in digital markets. Whether it is businesses at the forefront...
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Technology quotient - the ability of an individual, team or organization to harness the power of technology
In March 2020, I wrote a blog post about how the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) assesses whether business-to-business (B2B) platforms...
In antitrust discussions of recent years, there has been a lot of focus on the data collected by the digital giants. But there is another...
It has already been quite a journey and there is still some way to go, but an important milestone has been reached. The European...
The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has launched a consultation into digital business-to-business (B2B) platforms (in...
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Digital transformation of the economy means that rapid development and radical policy proposals are now the norm in antitrust. As 2020...
“How will history judge the choices we made?” It is with this question that EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager opened last week’s hotly...
The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has recently published two press releases that set out strict requirements for competition...
The European Commission has this week released the non-confidential version of its decision in the Google Shopping case, in which Google...
Yesterday, on 29 November 2017, the Comission has released a number of communications, documents and proposed measures for "a more...
One of the key elements in the EU’s strategy to deal with wide-spread phenomena Geo-blocking is the Geo-blocking regulation, which was...
Portability regulation finalised, draft Geo-blocking regulation in trilogue discussions Geo-blocking is a wide-spread phenomena in the...