A competition authority closed for business
A friend kindly pointed us to this “We’re-at-the-beach-so-dont-bother-looking-for-us-sign” with a comment: ”Transparency and vacation should be the unrenounceable principles of any public authority“....
View ArticleA true Belgian story
When did the new Belgian competition Act enter into force? If you run a Google search most results (notably a few dozen law firm’s newsletters saying exactly the same things) will tell you that it did...
View ArticlePomposity v Social Value in Legal (and Antitrust) Scholarship
I just saw this graph on Prof. Einer Elhauge’s LinkedIn account; the original source is Eric Posner’s blog (yes, the son of Richard Posner and a big name in his own right too). I’d be curious to know...
View ArticleA high-level football (soccer) quarrel
On December 17 Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly stated that there could be an appearance of “conflict of interest” on the fact that the European Commission had taken too long to open a State aid investigation...
View ArticleObama’s secret antitrust dealings in Brussels today
Many EU officials and some of the fauna making a living around them as well as many -like me- working in the EU area in Brussels are (once again) experiencing security checks, traffic disruptions and...
View ArticleA competition law anecdote in the FT
Last Wednesday’s Financial Times featured a competition law related anecdote that might have gone unnoticed to many of you. It’s told in a letter to the editor written by Craig Pouncey (managing...
View ArticleChillin’Competition faces a legal challenge
Chillin’Competition has encountered its first serious legal problem after a third party requested us to remove some content. As usual readers will remember, we took particular interest in the French...
View ArticleA post from the past
A reader of this blog sent me this morning the link to a post we wrote more than 2 years ago titled The post of a summer day , reproduced below. A re-read of those lines shows that things have changed...
View ArticleA light post for a Friday
- The Berlaymonster has a great post on one of the most transcendental EU Court Judgments in recent years; see here (the pic above is taken from the actual Judgment). The post includes the following...
View ArticleMixed Tidbits
-The talk of the town these days –as reflected in our most recent posts- is about “Lux leaks” and the uncomfortable position in which it places President Juncker, State aids and our victory in Court...
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