http://www.euractiv.fr/industrie/la-commission-europeenne-repousse-arnaud-montebourg-dans-les-cordes-16942.html?goback=%2Egde_4501204_member_177883621...
The recent proposals of Monsieur Arnaud Montebourg, the French minister for productivity recovery (yes, there is such a position in the French government - "redresseement productif", in original, in French), raised some eyes brows.M.Montebourg addressed a letter to the President of the European Commission, in...
Professor Alan Riley has a thoughtful article in Wall-Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443921504577643173700034222.html - on the stakes of the recent investigation opened by the European Commisson into EU dealings of the giant Gazprom.This investigation, like any other investigation of the European Commission, lies on real (and worrisome) antitrust issues....
The author's point in this aticle - http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-iphone-wireless-subsidies-20120912,0,7775846.story - is mostly correct. I would add that subsidizing handsets works in a similar way with taxation - a few benefit but everybody pays. The subsidies of the mobile phone companies are eventually costs, "shared" by all the subscribers of that...
On 13 August 2012 Johnny Munkhammar was finally defeated by a merciless malady and he stepped out of this world ! He really was to young to die (not even 38) and he was to good to die ! Johnny Munkhammar was, as he put it, a...
Is this the right decision ?Would a more nuanced position of ECJ help proceedings in public and private enforcement ?In a series of orders of the President of the Court in several related cases - C-589/11 P(I) - Schenker v Air France and Commission, C-590/11 P(I) -...
The recent ruling of the jury in Northern District of California in favor of Apple is still a very hot issue and is still sending hit waves around the world. The ruling comes after one of the most important legal battles between the two giants...
From today, "Blogul-de-concurenta" becomes "Stateofcompetition" !This is not just an change of name, but announces that this blog intends to cover in the future a wider range of issues, extending from competition itself into such directions as the freedom of the enterprises, innovation and the...
The paper has been published in the book "Repere actuale ale jurisprudentei Curtii Constitutionale", edited by Judge Silviu Barbu of the Brasov Court of Appeal, lecturer in law at the Law School of the Bucharest University and published recently (July 2012) at Indaco Systems Publishing...
From the old times we know that errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum. This means, in legal terms, that the recidivism will increase the charges of the infringer.Let's remember some facts.On 27 June 2012, the software giant received a blow from the General Court, which...
