The European institutions are currently debating the desirability of imposing restrictions on the way in which internet service providers (ISPs) in the EU can manage their networks and develop their offerings, under the broad heading of 'network neutrality'. In our opinion, so far, the need for...

Disruptive innovation, according to business literature, occurs when an innovative product is brought to a market, such as meets the basic requirements of the lower-end of an established value network and also offers added value outside of that value network. That product wins over consumers and...

This paper focuses on the EU reformed economic governance applied to the Member States of the euro area. Section II describes the new decision-making process to ensure surveillance and coordination of the national economic policies as well as to sanction the violation of the rules by the Member...

This paper analyses the reforms of the fiscal governance in the Euroopean Union introduced after the euro crisis. The first section is descriptive and gives a brief overview of the new fiscal governance as modified by the six-pack, the TSCG and the two-pack. The second section is critical and...

This paper studies the convergence and the remaining divergences of European competition and sector regulation in the electronic communications sector. It shows that (1) antitrust authorities are justified to intervene more intensively in the electronic communications sector than in the other...

The regulation of electronic communications has been recently reformed in Europe. One striking feature of the review was to base most of the economic regulation - the so-called Significant Market Power regime - on antitrust principles. In particular, the regulated markets have to be defined...

In this paper, I propose a market-based approach relying on a combination of selection criteria and antitrust methodology to determine the scope of economic regulation and its balance with competition law. I suggest a clarified three criteria test related to the presence of high non-transitory...

A new regulatory framework for electronic communications (fixed and mobile telephony, Internet, cable TV…) is due to be applicable in the Member States of the European Union in July 2003. This framework is composed of several Directives whose one – the Universal Service Directive –...

This paper analyses when EU intervention is needed to achieve this internal market for electronic communications. It sets legal and economic criteria to determine the appropriate scope of the EU intervention. It applies these criteria to several case studies and concludes that sometimes the EU...