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A press campaign against EU institutions? 21 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
There appears to be a summer campaign orchestrated by European media against EU officials. First it was the Belgian press reporting that DG Comp had been tricked by an Aprils Fools Day hoax (see our ...
April Fools Day hoax triggers a DG Comp request for information (no kidding) 19 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
Today is my first day back at the office and at blogging after a fairly long break; I would’ve never expected to have such an excellent ammunition for a post Thanks to Mark English for the pointer! ...
Ethical Rules in Competition Cases 12 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
Earlier in the year, I got nuts. I published in Concurrences and ECLR a short paper on conflicts of interests in EU competition law (see link at the end of this post). It created a stir. I was even t...
One word 6 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
REGISTER! (here)
Krugman 5 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Had not spotted this one. Krugman on market concentration (referring to an interesting study): “We don’t talk much about monopoly power these days; antitrust enforcement largely collapsed during the...
Review of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law – The First Five Years (Adrian Emch & David Stallibrass, eds.)) 2 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
On the occasion of the publication of “China’s Anti-Monopoly Law – The First Five Years”, our friend Adrian Emch (Hogan Lovells Beijing) has offered us two presents: 1. A hardcopy of the book; 2. A bo...
“Member State” aid 1 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
Let’s start this post with a disclaimer, just as our good Commission friends: Disclaimer: I am a nobody on State aid law. I do not teach State aid. And I do not publish on State aid. With this initi...
Operation Ghostfruit 31 Jul 2013 | 12:07 am
What if Google and Apple waged war at each other? I mean real war, not patent war. In one of the best tech columns of the year, F. Manjoo and M. Yglesias (Slate) take a try at wargaming. Manjoo pla...
SEP Injunctions under Article 102 TFEU 29 Jul 2013 | 02:19 pm
Two weeks ago, I was the lucky dude from academia attending a conference in Rome on the role of courts and agencies in innovation markets. The conference was organised by Assonime, CASRIP and LUISS U...
Breaking News 25 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
Appointments at the head of the new Belgian NCA are ongoing. The following people are in the cards (subject to approval by the Council of Ministers this week): President: Jacques Steenbergen Genera...