"One of the fundamental challenges currently facing the EU is that of reconciling its economic and environmental policies. Nevertheless, the role of environmental protection in EU competition law and policy has often been overlooked. Recent years have witnessed a shift in environmental...

Commissioner Kovacic of the US Federal Trade Commission has stated that “consumer protection laws are important complements to competition policy.” According to the UK Office of Fair Trading, “[c]ompetition and consumer policy are interdependent”; together they “provide a framework for...

The article analyses the growing role of on-line intermediaries in travel and accommodation services and the concerns that have arisen under competition law. In particular the clauses which tie service providers to the intermediaries are discussed in the light of several cases brought in front...

One of the biggest challenges facing environmental policy makers at present is that of integrating environmental protection goals into economic policy areas. Unless this is genuinely achieved, it is clear that environmental degradation will continue apace. Though one of the EU's most important...

The protection of consumer welfare or broadly speaking protection of the interests of consumers is a central aspect of all modern competition laws as well as a direct aim of consumer protection laws. Competition law and consumer protection policies are complementary and mutually reinforcing....