The paper analyses the extent of and the reasons behind limits to competition policy harmonisation in EU enlargement …. Our focus is on vertical restraints. First, we compare the relevant legal regimes towards vertical agreements in the EU … and in Eastern Europe. We then describe competition policy practice in all ten EU candidate countries and point out …

The response in 2008-09 to the global financial crisis was in many ways a high water mark for transatlantic policy … coordination. The major economies of the EU and the US rapidly agreed on a series of measures to limit the crisis. However, the … supplyside optimism in the US ; (d) institutional factors such as the lack of a central fiscal authority in the EU. In response …