The EU General Court’s Ruling on Meta’s Gatekeeper Designation (T-1078/23) The General Court has handed down its judgment in Meta v Commission (T-1078/23), ruling on Meta’s challenge to its DMA gatekeeper designation. Two services were at stake: Facebook Messenger and Facebook Marketplace. Messenger stays designated and the decision on Marketplace is annulled though this service […]
SCiDA Conference 2026 Day 2
The second and final day of the SCiDA Conference 2026 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf opened with a frank interview with the former Chair of the CMA and closed with a reflection from AG Kokott that gave the assembled scholars, enforcers, and practitioners much to carry home. Where Day 1 had asked what digital competition […]
SCiDA Conference 2026 Day 1: Shaping Competition in the Digital Age
The first day of the SCiDA Conference at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf brought together competition law scholars, enforcers, and practitioners for a packed programme spanning digital regulation, AI, enforcement effectiveness, and the political dimensions of platform power. What follows is a summary of the key discussions across the day with some photos (more photos at the end). […]
DMA Compliance Reports in Year Three: Reading Between the (Many) Lines
The DMA gatekeepers have submitted their third cycle of compliance reports to the European Commission. While the surface-level documentation suggests a steady march toward alignment, a deeper dive reveals a more complex reality. Our SCiDA Team has carefully reviewed this year’s submissions to identify substantive progress and mere procedural posturing (see our analysis on 2025 compliance reports here). […]
Conference Debrief: Highlights from the Concurrences Innovation Ecosystem Conference
The Concurrences Innovation Ecosystem: Legal and Economic Perspectives Conference was held on 16 March 2026 at Kings College, London. The conference brought together senior competition practitioners, regulators, judges, and academics to discuss pressing issues in UK and EU competition law across panels on merger control reform, digital markets regulation, cartel enforcement, EU-UK cooperation, and class […]
The SCiDA Database and the DMA Explorer – Start your comparative research on digital competition now!
We are excited to present two tools to facilitate your research on digital competition: The SCiDA Database and the SCiDA DMA Explorer!
Highlights from The Economist’s Antitrust Summit 2026
The Economist’s Antitrust Summit 2026, held on 26 February 2026 in City Hall, Westminster, brought together a formidable gathering of competition authority heads, senior regulators, practitioners, and industry representatives to take stock of the evolving global competition landscape. Co-chaired by Tamzin Booth, Editorial Director (B2B) at The Economist Group, and Jan Piotrowski, Finance and Economics […]
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The Joint Guidelines on the Interplay between the DMA and the GDPR – an important step towards cross-disciplinary cooperation
By Belle Beems Assistant professors at Leiden University, Europa Institute, Department of Public Law. Following the ASCOLA declaration of interests, the author declares no conflicting interests. On 9 October 2025, the European Commission and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published a draft of their Joint Guidelines on the Interplay between the Digital Markets Act and […]
SCiDA’s Digital Markets Regulation Review of 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the SCiDA (Shaping Competition in the Digital Age) project reflects on a year of remarkable academic output, policy engagement, and collaborative research that has shaped discourse around digital markets regulation across Europe and beyond. Our team has grown and evolved, our research has deepened, and our contributions to the […]