Corona and EU economic law: Antitrust (Articles 101 and 102 TFEU)
By Friso Bostoen and Liesbet Van Acker As the corona pandemic instils more and more […]
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The Intermarché-Coca Cola dispute: Who’s the bad guy? An analysis of the retail distributor-supplier relationship
If you want to buy Coca Cola products in the supermarket Intermarché in France, you […]
Lessons and questions from Google Android- Part 2 – Tying in two-sided markets, anti-competitive effects and extra-territorial remedies
The very lengthy and complex Google Android decision provides us with lots of material for […]
Abuse of relative dominance in the platform economy: a French court finds Amazon’s contracts with third-party sellers significantly imbalanced
Two years ago (before Amazon became entangled in a patchwork of investigations by competition authorities), Reuters reported: ‘France […]
Amazon cases on the move: Bundeskartellamt closes proceedings while European Commission opens formal investigation
The 17th of July has been quite the day for Amazon, at least when it comes […]
‘We have reached “peak cloning” in Silicon Valley’: when does copying your competitor’s product become anticompetitive?
‘We have reached “peak cloning” in Silicon Valley’, read a recent tweet by Jeff Morris Jr. […]
Ex-ante competition law enforcement and online platforms – a tool with no (clear) instructions
The interest of national competition authorities in the matter of online platforms and competition law […]
Is there hope for competition in the rail sector?
The blocking of the Siemens-Alstom merger reminded everyone of the ‘pros and cons’ arguments in the […]
The return of the MFN clauses – platform ranking as an enforcement mechanism for price parity
The MFN cases of the past few years have delivered a series of uncoordinated cases […]
App stores and (potential) abuses of dominance – an opportunity to reshape competition law enforcement in digital markets
During the past few weeks the number of complaints against Apple’s practices concerning the App […]