This paper analyzes the evolution of Competition law and policy in the recent new Member States of the European Union. Institutions and rules were established in these countries throughout the nineties and there is already some experience about their enforcement, with relevant implications for...

The bank bailouts following the global financial crisis of 2008 have been subject to prior approval of the European Commission (EC), the competition authority of the European Union. The EC was reluctant to reject rescue efforts directed at failing banks and so it consistently approved all such...

The policy paper contains written evidence on the effects of Brexit on competition law in the UK submitted by Ioannis Lianos, Deni Mantzari, Florian Wagner von Papp, and Florence Thepot to the EU Internal Market Lords Select Sub-Committee, which was published on the Parliament website.The report...

The paper gives an overview about the development of modern Hungarian competition law. It presents how the Europe Agreements' harmonization clause and Article 62 mirroring the competition rules of the E.C. Treaty had an impact on legislation and the evolving practice of the Hungarian Competition...

Under art.11 Regulation 1/2003, every national competition authority (NCA) of the EU Member States must notify the EU Commission about the opening of formal investigations for a potential infringement of arts 101-102 TFEU and the envisaged decisions in that regard. The enforcement statistics for...