Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2015/2016

Abstract

The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. This year's article provides first a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist's team and surveys some of the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2018/2019. The article then reviews the Siemens/ Alstom merger, the Google Android case, as well as two state aid cases that related to a public service compensation for obligations that involved press delivery in France and Italy. Keywords Antitrust • Competition policy • Mergers • State aid • European champions • Google • Net avoided costs This article provides first an overview of the activity of the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission (DG Competition) in 2018/2019 that is related to antitrust, mergers, and state aid (Sect. 1). In the following sections, the contribution by the Chief Economist Team (CET) to the economic analysis in

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

“… 1 Case AT.39850. See DG Comp’s press release available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2446_en.htm as well as DG Comp’s article of last year (Claici et al 2016 ). …”

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2013–2014

“…See DG Comp's press release available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2446_en.htm as well as DG Comp's article of last year (Claici et al 2016). 2 Case AT.39745.…”