Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2020/2021

Apostolos Baltzopoulos (), Liliane Giardino-Karlinger, Dimitrios Magos (), Pierre Régibeau () and João Vareda ()
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Apostolos Baltzopoulos: European Commission
Dimitrios Magos: European Commission
Pierre Régibeau: European Commission
João Vareda: European Commission

Review of Industrial Organization, 2021, vol. 59, issue 4, No 2, 567-598

Abstract: Abstract The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and State aid. After providing a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist’s team, this article surveys some of the main developments at the Directorate General for Competition over 2020/2021. In particular, the article discusses the Commission proposal on the Digital Markets Act, the developments on the State aid response related to the COVID pandemic as well as the Danfoss/Eaton merger.

Keywords: Competition policy; Antitrust; Mergers; State aid; Digital markets act (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-021-09847-6

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