The paper seeks to analyse the place of competition law in the post-Lisbon Treaty era. To assess whether a “reorientation” of the competition objectives has occurred, the paper first evaluates the place of “competition” in the original Community Treaties from a historical perspective. It...

We study the choice of the regulatory structure when a regulated firm engages in different activities for different countries. Under decentralization each activity is regulated independently and the contracts offered to the firm suffer from two opposite distortions with respect to...

This paper looks at EU trade policy and more specifically at the negotiating mandate the Council must grant the Commission to start trade negotiations. The negotiating mandate is a set of directives that impose limits to the proposals the Commission can make. As such the mandate is legally...