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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“....
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Antitrust tidbits
- On Friday Brazil’s CADE announced that it’s also investigating Google pursuant to a complaint filed by Microsoft (see here). The investigation appears to address the very same practices previously...
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An announcement and a nomination
The announcement: On 15 February my co-blogger Monsieur le Professeur Nicolas Laurent Max Petit (no kiddin’) will be joining DG COMP for a 6-month stint. I’m curious as to how this experience will...
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Antitrust quote of the day and the evolution of the law on refusal to supply
In 1989 late Philip Areeda (picture above) wrote one of the most influential and cited antitrust pieces in the history of the discipline: Essential Facilities: An Epithet in Need of Limiting...
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Obama’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...
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On Mexico’s controversial antitrust innovations
As I mentioned some posts ago, over the past few months I’ve been paying increased attention to competition law issues arising in Latin America. Until now I hadn’t shared here any views about what’s...
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Wrapping up the week (on SEPs, Uber, Tesla, lawyer moves and legal rankings)
This week’s blogging inactivity has had a lot to do with a pile of new and old work, the fact that I’m moving houses and have the in-laws here (a painful process; the moving, I meant), the fact that I...
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Hotch Potch
As you might have noticed, we took an unnanounced temporary break from bloggin’. First it was due to a particularly intense period of work (I might give more details about it in the future) and then...
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US Federal Competition Policy Expanded: North Carolina State Board of Dental...
(by Giorgio Monti) [Note by Alfonso: The US Supreme Court delivered last week an antitrust Opinion in North Carolina State Board of Examiners v FTC. We asked Giorgio Monti -whom we knew would be...
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Summertime developments in EU competition law (tax rulings, cement, Section 5...
Lots of things happened while this blog was closed for holidays; here are a some comments on a selected few of those developments: –The news: On 20 July the European Parliament issues its Draft Report...
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