State of Competition

August 11, 2021 In Antitrust, Cases and Decisions, Cases and Decisions, Distribution, Europe, Uncategorized By Dr. Valentin Mircea

ICCJ impută Consiliului Concurenței depășirile termenului de prescripție, în cauza Whiteland

După ce pe data de 20 mai 2021 Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție a dezbătut recursul Consiliului Concurenței în cauza Whiteland Import-Export - dosar 3251/2/2015 - prin decizia nr. 3853/24.06.2021 aceasta a admis recursul și a casat hotărârea Curții de Apel București prin care...

June 2, 2019 In Antitrust, Europe By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Call for the strengthening of the EU competition rules enforcement

Time has come to bring the EU competition enforcement to a new level. The competition rules are and must continue to be an essential pillar of the European Union, the cornerstone of its internal market and a guarantee of the prosperity of its citizens. An...

October 17, 2018 In Europe, Uncategorized By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Competition policy, not competition politics

Competition law enforcement in the European Union is at an all-times high, with several proeminent cases decided by the European Commission and others in the pipeline. The European Commission is now seen as a ”beacon” of competition enforcement in the world, except for the United States of...

July 19, 2018 In Cases and Decisions, Europe, Innovation By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Google – big fine, little reasoning (so far)

The European Commission aims high and seems to like hitting big companies mainly because they are big. As expected by many, yesterday the European Commission handed a fresh decision to Alphabet, the holding company of Google, and almost all the headlines went to the new record...

December 4, 2017 In Antitrust, Europe By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Buyer Power in EU Competition Law

This is mostly an overlooked topic, albeit very important. Market power is at no time an unilateral exercise of the companies and even the stronger corporations need to bow in front of the consumers. Buyer Power in EU Competition Law - AVAILABLE NOW Winner of the 2017...

October 12, 2014 In Europe By Dr. Valentin Mircea

“I am in love with competition” – Margrethe Vestager during the hearings in the European Parliament for EU Competition Commissioner

INTERVIEW-NEW EU ANTITRUST HEAD NOT SWAYED BY ANTI-AMERICANISM, BULLIES 23-Sep-2014 20:16By Foo Yun Chee and Alastair MacdonaldBRUSSELS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Margrethe Vestager says that neither "loud people" in business and government nor "anti-Americanism" will sway her rulings on antitrust cases when she becomes the European...

July 18, 2014 In Europe By Dr. Valentin Mircea

The most important riddle of the summer: who will be the next Competition Commissioner?

Even as the summer reaches its highest season - and this can be seen all around us - the discussions on who will be appointed on which EU Commission job are also at reaching a peak. Unfortunately, the discussions surrounding the appointment are far from being transparent...

July 16, 2013 In Europe By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Recommended lecture of the month – July 2013 – “L’Europe par les juges” (Europe by the judges) of Robert Lecourt, former President of the European Court of Justice

L'Europe par les juges - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idÃ©esThis is an instrumental book regarding the key role that the European Court of Justice had in the creation of what is today the European Union. Without the judges from Luxembourg and without...

June 14, 2013 In Europe By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Recommended lecture of the month – June 2013 – Grainne de Burca: “Europe’s Raison d’Etre”

A very interesting argument of what EU was, it is and of what it should become.Quote:"What is the raison dâ€™Ãªtre of the European Union? Does it still make sense to ask this question today? Launched in 1952 as a kind of pilot project of limited economic...