Category: Competition and Antitrust
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Germany’s Gas-Friendly Capacity Auction Opens on 9 September
Essen: The first tender under Germany’s Electricity Supply Security and Capacity Act opens on 9…
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Merger Rules Get Their First Rewrite Since 2004 This Quarter
Munich: Deal lawyers advising Bavaria’s industrial groups have spent the summer rereading a draft that…
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Cleantech Subsidies Are Flowing Again Under a Looser Rulebook
Esbjerg: Danish manufacturers building components for offshore wind have a new source of public money,…
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Google Has Until 21 September to Redesign Search in Europe
Alphabet’s lawyers have about nineteen days left. The European Commission adopted two non-compliance decisions against…
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Merger Rules Written Back in 2004 Are Finally Being Rewritten
Düsseldorf: European merger control still rests on guidelines drafted when the main worry was whether…
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A Hundred Million in Austrian Loans Tests the Clean Industrial Deal
Leoben: Austria has taken a route through Europe’s state aid rulebook that most capitals have…
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A Blocking Order From Beijing Now Sits Inside an EU Merger Case
Beijing: China’s Ministry of Justice signed off on a blocking order on 19 August instructing…
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Denmark Wins Clearance to Hand Cleantech Firms 84 Million Euros
Aalborg: Danish factory owners who want to build electrolyser stacks, heat pump compressors or magnet-grade…
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One Economic Study Now Sits Under Europe’s New Merger Guidelines
Eindhoven: The venture funds that back semiconductor start-ups in this Dutch technology cluster spend a…
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Rivals Now Have a Final Judgment to Build Damages Claims On
Tallinn: Estonian app developers watched the Android case for eight years without much expectation. The…
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Merger Guidelines Review Enters Its Final Quarter of Consultation
Wels: The Austrian furniture group XXXLutz did not expect to become a reference point in…
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Innovation Theory Meets Merger Control in a New Commission Study
Competition lawyers have spent two decades arguing about prices. The European Commission now wants them…
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State Aid Exemptions Face a Rewrite With Four Months to Spare
Bilbao: Regional development officers in the Basque Country write State aid conditions into nearly every…
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Can Two Shrinking Paper Giants Merge Without Raising Prices
Lappeenranta: Two paper companies whose main product loses volume every year want to combine their…
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State Aid Money for Cleantech Runs Out on the Last Day of 2026
Esbjerg: The European Commission cleared an 84 million euro Danish scheme on 10 August to…
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Apple Traded Fee Complexity for a Flat Cut Brussels Can Police
Brussels: Apple rewrote its European developer terms on 18 August, and the Commission said it…
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China’s Blocking Order Runs Into an October Deadline It Cannot Move
Düsseldorf: The German company that owns MediaMarkt and Saturn has spent this summer waiting on…
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Foreign Subsidy Filings Came in Seven Times Above the Forecast
Bilbao: Spanish industrial groups bidding for infrastructure contracts now file a declaration that did not…
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Invisalign Case Drags Medical Devices Into Antitrust Territory
Competition enforcers have spent a decade circling software platforms. This summer they walked into a…
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Gun Jumping Case Puts EU Merger Control Back on Trial
Wels: A furniture group headquartered in Upper Austria has handed Brussels its most useful merger…
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Three Small State Aid Files Show What the Clean Deal Buys
Aalborg: The Commission cleared three national subsidy schemes this month without a single press conference,…
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Sanofi Offers to Stop Talking Down a Rival Vaccine Until 2030
Lyon: The vaccine plants ringing this city ship influenza doses to health systems that buy…
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A Simpler State Aid Rulebook Still Favours Richer Treasuries
Bratislava: Officials in smaller member states read the Commission’s draft block exemption with one question…
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Denmark Wins Clearance for a Cleantech Scheme Worth 84 Million
Aalborg: The European Commission cleared an 84 million euro Danish scheme on 10 August 2026,…