Despite the increasingly market-friendly approach to unfair competition law (UCL) adopted by EU law, the protection of competitors from unfair trading practices (B2B) remains a salient feature in certain jurisdictions. Such a feature can be the source of tension with European law on at least two...

The growing complexity of the financial sector and the extreme difficulty to cope with it has been of one the main insights gained from the recent financial crisis. We purport, albeit briefly, to assess some of the consequences of such complexity through the lens of the interplay between the...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was established on 24 October 2014 on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding of Establishing AIIB signed by 22 prospective founding members, including China as the largest contributing member. According to its articles of agreement, the AIIB...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo parte da premissa de que não existe uma solução única no que respeita à implementação do Direito da Concorrência nos países em vias de desenvolvimento. Ao invés, a implementação do Direito da Concorrência nos países em vias de desenvolvimento...

At the eve of the 2007 financial crisis, it was noticeable that the integration of Europe's financial sector was progressing at an uneven pace on at least two accounts. On the one hand, the banking industry displayed a greater degree of integration, certainly commensurate with its importance in...

Introduction -- Interplay between European Competition Law and National Competition Law before regulation 1/2003 -- Interplay between European Competition Law and National Competition Law after regulation 1/2003 -- Unilateral conduct and undertaking in European Competition Law -- Economic and...