After a slightly inauspicious start, involving the rejection by the European Parliament of three candidate Commissioners and robust grilling by MEPs of many of the proposed team, the European Commission led by former German...more
On 10 September, Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen announced the new European Commission.
There were scarcely any leaks in advance about the structure of the new Commission and the allocation of dossiers which...more
Normally the European Commission’s Competition portfolio alternates between a Commissioner from a large Member State and a small Member State. Thus it had been widely assumed that the Competition portfolio in the new...more
Margrethe Vestager has now been in office as European Commissioner for Competition for two years, and is effectively at the half-way point in her mandate. This is an appropriate time to evaluate her record so far and to...more
Now that the UK is on the path to an “in-out” referendum on 23 June, this paper looks at the impact of a Brexit on competition policy and enforcement in the UK, and generally in the European Union (“EU”).
EU competition...more
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EUMR ,
European Commission ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
OECD ,
Private Right of Action ,
State Aid ,
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UK Brexit ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Antitrust authorities on the offensive
– the insatiable appetite of mature regimes for ever-increasing fines continues unabated, with the U.S., EU, Brazil, South Korea, Japan and Australia on pace to surpass their 2013...more