The article analyzes the recent judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Skanska Industrial. In its preliminary ruling, the CJEU recognized for the first time the so-called “economic succession doctrine” in damage claims concerning a breach of EU competition rules....

This paper explores how EU competition law enforcement might be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each section of this paper reviews how various components of EU competition law are impacted. The paper evaluates the state of play and, where relevant, it makes policy proposals for how...

The increased use of online sales channels has led the Commission to prioritise competition law enforcement and regulatory intervention in digital markets. In this paper we show how the Commission has stepped up its efforts to ensure that there is a single digital market so that consumers in the...

In 1987, Richard Whish and Brenda Sufrin published an important comparison of EU and US antitrust law as applied to restrictive practices. They concluded that it would be unhelpful for the EU to borrow the language and the analytical framework developed in the US: the rule of reason is a phrase...

The European Commission is charged with implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will impose a list of 22 do and don't to Big Tech platforms in March 2024. Based on economic and legal reasoning, this paper asks how the Commission can fulfil this challenging task effectively. The paper...