Astăzi Mega Image, parte a grupului Ahold-Delhaize, a anunțat achiziția lanțului de magazine Profi, o tranzacție care nu poate să nu suscite discuții, pentru că dacă va fi finalizată în acest format va produce mișcări tectonice în sectorul comercializării produselor alimentare, un sector care este...
Sindromul Stockholm definește un comportament în care o persoană în captivitate începe să se identifice strâns cu răpitorul/răpitorii precum și cu revendicările și agenda acestora. Explicațiile unui astfel de comportament sunt diverse și subiect de controverse dar toți psihologii sunt de acord că acesta este o...
The word ”cartel” in itself has automatically a negative connotation, for good reasons. People associate this word with one of the worst wrongdoings in business, which annuls the competition on the merits, able to maximise efficiency, and so it affects consumers. Perhaps the best known cartels...
The scope of this contribution is to argue that the enforcement of the European Union competition rules requires a significant overhaul with respect to the judicial phase of this process. Since the first years of the European Communities the enforcement of the competition rules has been...
Este vorba de o criză care nu ar fi trebuit să se întâmple, dacă autoritățile își făceau datoria până la capăt. Este o criză în urma căreia suferă oameni, pacienți cu boli grave. Existența unui cartel care se juca - și încă se mai...
Voting is now open for the 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards. For this 11th edition, the Editorial Committee received a record-breaking 1,200+ submissions during the nominations period, out of which it selected: - 100+ Academic Articles - 130+ Business Articles - 42 Soft Laws - 20 Student Papers As a reader, you...
Pioneer, avant-garde, transformationalist - Eleanor M. Fox is regularly described in these terms by the manifold antitrust practitioners who have been influenced by her industry-shaping scholarly work. Over the course of an extraordinary career, she has helped establish a coherent set of competition law and...
Some consideration on the ”fresh” (so-to-speak, for a case initiated in 2009) Google Shopping case at the General Court of the European Union, which ”largely dismisses” the request for annulment lodged by Google - but not all of it. Due to the fact that it...
The European Union's Digital Markets Act is advancing - at slow pace - through the intricate legislative process of the European Union but behind this process there is an epic battle for the control of the revenue streams in the digital economy. This battle has very...
The EU Competition Commissioner, Ms. Margrethe Vestager is on fire since it learned that Illumina, an US based producer of innovative screeners and markers for early detection of cancer announced that ”it completed” the acquisition of Grail, a smaller cancer test maker, before receiving a...