Recent Evolutions in Antitrust Enforcement: A Comparative Perspective

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle

Alberto Heimler, May 24, 2007

There are many philosophies of antitrust enforcement in the world, but in recent years we are witnessing greater and greater convergence. At the first ICN conference in Naples in 2002, Giuseppe Tesauro, then Chairman of the Italian Competition Authority, discussing the then ongoing debate on the test to apply in merger control, whether dominance or substantial lessening of competition, said “the