The EU’s prominent antitrust cases [What Think Tanks are thinking]

The European Commission is pursuing a number of high-profile investigations in the competition area, highlighting the determination of the new team at the European Union’s executive to be a tough enforcer of antitrust laws.

In April 2015, the Commission sent a Statement of Objections to Google, alleging the company has abused its dominant position in the markets for general internet search services. In another Statement of Objections sent out in April, it alleged that some of Gazprom’s business practices in Central and Eastern European gas markets constitute an abuse of the Russian company’s dominant market position.

This note offers links to commentaries, studies and reports from major international think tanks on the Google and Gazprom cases, as well as on general challenges facing EU competition policies.

ESO: Background information: Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Gazprom for alleged abuse of dominance on Central and Eastern European gas supply markets http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-antitrust-commission-sends-statement-of-objections-to-gazprom-for-alleged-abuse-of-dominance-on-central-and-eastern-european-gas-supply-markets/

ESO: Background information: Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on comparison shopping service; opens separate formal investigation on Android http://www.europeansources.info/record/antitrust-commission-sends-statement-of-objections-to-google-on-comparison-shopping-service-opens-separate-formal-investigation-on-android/

College of Europe: Development Office: Newsletter, No.2, 2015: The European Commission’s antitrust activism: competition law, industrial policy, or a defence of the Single Market? https://www.coleurope.eu/node/23634

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