The European Union is intensively discussing changes in its merger control to adapt the existing regime, laid down by Regulation No 139/2004 (EUMR), to new realities. These are, besides the challenge posed by the development of the digital economy, issues connected with the global success of...

The EU Court of Justice (CJEU) approach to solving cases of clashes of collective bargaining with the freedoms of the internal market is noticeably different from how the same Court resolves clashes of collective bargaining with the rules of economic competition. This difference has been the...

The more than sixty-year long history of the competition policy and law of the European integration naturally invites a step by step interpretation working with some meaningful time segments that would highlight changing trends and determining priorities of different phases of its development....

From the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty the EU has among its constitutional objectives the goal of achieving a highly competitive social market economy. It is for the first time in the history of integration, that the concept of social market economy found its way into the Treaty...

The paper presents results of World Bank survey in 2005 undertaken within the project Doing Business, with special regard to the Czech Republic position. Doing business conditions are assessed particularly according to the regulation burden and its impacts on entrepreneurship. The structure...