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September 14, 2012 In Cases and Decisions By Dr. Valentin Mircea

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....

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September 14, 2012 In Communications and Technology By Dr. Valentin Mircea

Smartphones, mobile networks and competition

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...

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August 18, 2012 In Cases and Decisions, Free Market By Dr. Valentin Mircea

The Role of the Constitutional Court of Romania in guaranteeing the functioning of the market economy

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...

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