Tag: Antitrust
Populism or panacea: will stricter antitrust laws make petrol cheap?
Populism or panacea Will stricter antitrust laws make gasoline cheap? By Max Borowski 06/15/2022, 08:16 am Satisfied economists, appalled lawyers: Economics Minister Robert Habeck sparked a controversy with his initiative…
EU: Amazon will offer data sharing to avoid a fine from antitrust authorities-sources
EU: Amazon will offer data sharing to avoid a fine from antitrust authorities-sources | Photo credits: Joe Ravi / Shutterstock.com by Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, June 13 (Reuters) – Amazon…
Traffic light muddles around antitrust law: haphazardly at the pump
Traffic light muddles around antitrust law Aimless at the pump A commentary by Max Borowski 06/13/2022, 4:58 p.m The federal government does not know exactly how fuel prices are generated…
More power for competition watchdogs: retail criticizes antitrust law plans as “wrong way”
More power for competition watchdogs Retail criticizes antitrust law plans as “wrong way” 06/14/2022, 02:40 am Economics Minister Habeck Habeck wants to give the Cartel Office more options to intervene…
Antitrust law “with teeth”: Habeck wants to speed things up after the tank discount debacle
antitrust law “with teeth” Habeck wants to speed up after the tank discount debacle 06/13/2022 10:02 am Since an excess profit tax does not find a majority in the traffic…
Tightening of antitrust law: Habeck wants to skim off oil company profits more easily
Tightening of antitrust laws Habeck wants to skim off oil company profits more easily 06/12/2022, 08:57 am The tank discount enforced by the FDP has hardly any impact on the…
The Brazilian antitrust authority approves the acquisition of Grupo BIG by Carrefour – 05/25/2022 at 18:14
BRAZILIAN ANTITRUST AUTHORITY APPROVES CARREFOUR’S ACQUISITION OF GRUPO BIG SAO PAULO (Reuters) – CADE, Brazil’s antitrust authority, on Wednesday approved with conditions the acquisition of food retailer Grupo BIG by…
The Brazilian antitrust authority approves the acquisition of Grupo BIG by Carrefour
SAO PAULO, May 25 (Reuters) – Brazil’s antitrust authority, CADE, on Wednesday gave conditional approval to the acquisition of food retailer Grupo BIG by Carrefour Brasil, the local subsidiary of…
German regulator tackles Meta with new antitrust rules
Meta has been classified by the German Federal Cartel Office (BKartA), the national competition authority, as a company of “primary importance for competition”. This qualification gives the regulator greater leeway…
Apple Pay: EU antitrust complaint against Apple Pay reportedly backed by PayPal
Mathieu Grumiaux May 03, 2022 at 1:42 p.m. 5 The complaint filed by the online payment system in 2019 reportedly motivated European authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into Apple’s…
Spirit rejects JetBlue takeover bid due to antitrust risks
May 2 (Reuters) – U.S. low-cost airline Spirit Airlines on Monday rejected an offer to buy JetBlue Airways in favor of Frontier Airlines, saying the deal was unlikely to be…
Apple Pay under pressure: EU prepares new antitrust proceedings
According to reports, Apple has to deal again with the competition authorities of the European Union. It’s supposed to be about Apple Pay and the question of why Apple doesn’t…