By Alan Favoretto2 & Daniel Favoretto3   I. Introduction Despite its sector-specific nature, telecommunications are the basis of the world economy’s digital transformation, as well as numerous applications that impact…

By Thorsten Käseberg1    Over the last 10 years, “choke points” have become a standard notion for trade and security policymakers in our conflict-driven, globalized interdependent world. Choke points may…

By Brad Staples & Rachel Brandenburger1   Introduction Businesses are facing unprecedented challenges. Changes in the geopolitical landscape call into question (and even reverse) many of the key assumptions that…

By Cristina Caffarra1   The recent conference “Antitrust, Regulation and the Next World Order” (Homepage – Antitrust, Regulation and the Next World Order (bruxconference2024.com) showed that while there is still…

By Neyzar Ünübol1   In a recent decision, the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) announced its final decision regarding an investigation into  allegations that EssilorLuxottica S.A. (“EssilorLuxottica”) had restricted competition in…

By Jean-François Bellis1   One of the major and most remarkable innovations in the 2023 European Commission Guidelines on Horizontal cooperation2 (hereinafter “Horizontal Guidelines”) was the introduction of a chapter…

By Oleksandr Aleksyeyenko1   Wartime Implications Russian military aggression against Ukraine started on February 24, 2022, and the end of February 2022 became a critical point for the Antimonopoly Committee…

By Antonio Bavasso, Josh Buckland & Michael Tagliavini1   I. Introduction and Overview On July 13, 2023, the highest EU court – the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) – handed…