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Anticipation!

Anticipation!

I was recently at the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf and followed a hearing – you may have read about it here. As we were still standing in the corridors afterwards, an employee of the Bundeskartellamt asked me whether it would be back this year… And when I recorded our podcast “Bei Anruf Wettbewerb” with Justus Haucap yesterday, he asked me on air whether it would be back this year… and both of them had anticipating eyes. And of course!…

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Antitrust Advent Calendar 2021

Antitrust Advent Calendar 2021

Indeed, dear readers, there are a lot of news out there: The European Court supports the Commission in its quest against Google. The UK CMA tells Facebook to sell Giphy. The Bundeskartellamt, in a quite different dimension, opposed the acquisition of “Ostthüringer Zeitung”, a regional newspaper in the Gera/Jena area (while we are waiting for the first section 19a-decisions). The new German “traffic lights coalition” has ambitious plans for EU and German competition law reform, now under the direction of…

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Today saw the final installment of our Antitrust Advent Calendar 2020 – a definite sign that the year draws to a close. Yet, if we learned one thing in the Youknowwhatyear it is this: Nothing is definite. Rupprecht Podszun has some (preliminary?) closing remarks. When I wrote the final message in 2019, I looked forward “to the exciting developments in 2020” – not anticipating just how exciting it would be. We saw the Facebook case taking twists and turns in…

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2020 Antitrust Advent Calendar

2020 Antitrust Advent Calendar

What a year! We are getting close to the end of 2020 (and some say: better so), but obviously, we still have our DECEMBER SPECIAL for you: the Antitrust Advent Calendar! To review the year in competition law, D’Kart asked personalities from the antitrust community all over the world to answer the following question: What has been the most significant competition law case or competition law development in your country in 2020? But we did not leave it at this….

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Read!

Read!

If the D’Kart newsletter comes exceptionally on a pre-Christmas Sunday, it’s for a good reason. To wish you a pleasant Sunday, to remind you of looking at the entries in the 2019 Antitrust Advent Calendar and for the purpose of literary criticism: a very well-known colleague has published a novel (in German), and you rightly want to know what it is like on the day of publication. Rupprecht Podszun read it for you. And since you are not going to…

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2019 Antitrust Advent Calendar

2019 Antitrust Advent Calendar

Another exciting year for competition law! To review 2019, D’Kart asked personalities from the antitrust community to answer one question: “Looking back to the competition law year 2019 – what is most remarkable in your view?” This time, however, differing from our approach in 2018 and 2017, we decided to listen to the young generation of competition law folks: Men and women from our community who have already started their careers but who – probably – have not yet reached…

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2018 Antitrust Advent Calendar

2018 Antitrust Advent Calendar

What a year for competition law! To review 2018, D’Kart asked 24 personalities from the competition law community to answer one question: “Looking back to the competition law year 2018 – what is most remarkable in your view?” The answers are revealed day-by-day in December, following the tradition of „Adventskalender“. We humbly suggest to return to this blog every day till the 24th of December, so that you get your daily sweet – and the surprise who came up with…

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2017 Antitrust Advent Calendar

2017 Antitrust Advent Calendar

What a year for competition law! To review 2017, D’Kart asked 24 personalities from the competition law community to answer one question: What was the most important, interesting or irritating competition law decision or development in 2017 for you? The answers are revealed day-by-day in December, following the tradition of „Adventskalender“. We humbly suggest to return to this blog every day till the 24th of December, so that you get your daily sweet – and the surprise who came up…

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