France/Germany : The Look from across the Rhine, a Story of Brotherhood

On 15 January 2008, the Bundeskartellamt celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in Bonn. This ceremony enabled the competition family to rejoice for one of its members and to celebrate a half century of independent regulation of competition and of peaceful contribution of competition to economic democracy and prosperity. It also gave an opportunity to look at the close partnership between the BKartA and the French Conseil de la concurrence, and on the evolution of competition, of its economic and social role, and of its instruments in Germany and in France