As we move through an eventful 2025 full of developments in digital markets, we’re pleased to share some exciting news from the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) project—ranging from open positions, a team promotion, the launch of the SCiDA Database and some latest publications. SCiDA is a joint UK-German research initiative, funded by […]
Towards effective remedies in EU competition law: Recalibrating Reg. 1/2003 to match digital market realities
European competition law has a remedy problem. As digitisation changes how markets work, it becomes harder to find effective remedies. In this week’s blog, Jasper van den Boom discusses the papers [1][2] he has written together with Fiona Scott Morton, in which the authors theorise on how the EU remedy design can be recalibrated to […]
AI Action Summit: Can Europe still enter the Competition?
Utilising its full force of glamour, diplomacy, and Parigian style, France rang the wake-up bell for Europe in the race to Artificial Intelligence with the AI Action Summit in Paris. Maybe this came a bit late – but it came with a bang. Emmanuel Macron announced an investment package of 109 billion Euros for AI […]
Navigating Digital Markets: A Challenge for Turkish Competition Law
This week’s contribution is by Gülce Korkmaz, PhD student and Fellow at the Joachim Herz Doctoral School of Law at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She will walk us through the proposed amendments to the Turkish Competition Act, and shed some light on the heavily amended E-commerce Law. Her analysis reveals the content, progressive nature, […]
Japan’s Enactment of the Smartphone Act
This July, Japan regulated the most impactful piece of consumer electronics since the invention of the computer (or for some, since the lightbulb): the smartphone. Japan‘s new laser focused regulation tackles competitive issues related to mobile OS, browsers, app stores and search engines. So, is this Act a new marvel of Japanese inventiveness, the Japanese […]
Winners & losers: Game, set and match in Google Shopping?
Last week was the official conclusion to the Google Shopping Saga. The Court of Justice ruled that self-preferencing is indeed a stand-alone abuse by validating the theory of harm put forward by the Commission. With the ruling against Ireland in their long-running Apple state aid tax case, the week was a shining conclusion of Margrethe […]
SCiDA Summer Review: A Year of Digital Markets Act
A year of DMA: Since the first notifications of gatekeepers, one year has passed, and it‘s time – not only for the first judgement of the EU General Court on a designation appeal – but for a review of the many events since the start of DMA enforcement. What happened? How does the Commission fare? […]
ECN DMA Conference Debrief Addendum by Vicky Robertson – App stores – Changing business models as roadblocks for DMA implementation?
As our first SCiDA guest contribution and insightful addition to our ECN DMA Conference Debrief, Vicky Robertson, Professor for competition law at WU Vienna, Director of The Competition Law Hub and moderator of the panel discussion on app stores during the ECN DMA workshop shares her insights from the breakout session. An in-depth report of […]
Introducing the SCiDA Podcast – Towards the ECN-DMA Workshop series.
For those of you who want to listen to digital platform regulation issues while being on the go – We are launching the SCiDA Podcast! In the coming weeks, we conduct interviews with stakeholders about their views on the DMA and national digital platform regulation, their experiences in the DMA compliance workshops, how they see […]
A new summer designation – Booking.com & the DMA.
The Commission’s DMA team has just given us a peak into their summer plans! However, their summer does not revolve around sunny beaches or city trips, but rather paperwork and workshops. In its latest round of designation decisions, the Commission has announced that Booking will be considered a gatekeeper. As the obligations will only start […]