State of Competition
A level playing field for the health care system, please !
Last Saturday - on 12 January 2013 - the new Minister of Health announced, in front of the media, that the State budget will no longer pay for medical assistance services provided to patients in privately-owned hospitals. According to the Minister, the 10% from the...
Samsung and Google face to face with the European Commission – but what a difference !
With the below statement of objections, from the European Commission, it looks like Samsung, in its total war with Apple, risk shooting itself in the foot. As I mentioned on this blog in other occasions, the battleground for competitors in the high-tech (and patent protected)...
UPDATE. From the producer to the customer – is the shortest way the best way ? Considerations about the advertising and pharma industries.
UPDATE 4:In February 2014 the Romanian Government issued an Emergency Government Ordinance (EGO), no 2/2014, which extends the public service obligations to ensure the uninterrupted provision of drugs also to the manufacturers and their authorized importers. In addition, EGO 2/2014 provides that for the drugs...
EUROPA – PRESS RELEASES – Press Release – Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Romanian Power Exchange
EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press Release - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Romanian Power Exchange: EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press Release - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Romanian Power Exchange.Please note that OPCOM is the sole power exchange allowed to operate in Romania...
Intellectual property vs.competition – the debate is heating on
UPDATEAccording to a study made by Professor Coleen Chien of Santa Clara University, the majority of the patent infringement lawusits brought in 2012 (up to December 1) were initiated by Patent Assertion Entities (vehicles which do not manufacture goods but only license the patents) -...
‘Maximum temperature law’ to prevent ‘temperature gouging’ makes as much sense as laws to prevent ‘price gouging’
‘Maximum temperature law’ to prevent ‘temperature gouging’ makes as much sense as laws to prevent ‘price gouging’...
La Commission Europeenne repousse Arnaud Montebourg
http://www.euractiv.fr/industrie/la-commission-europeenne-repousse-arnaud-montebourg-dans-les-cordes-16942.html?goback=%2Egde_4501204_member_177883621...
La tentation d’ouvrir la boite de Pandore (The temptation to open the Pandora’s box)
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...
The Commission vs.Gazprom
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....