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AGENDA 2025: Less competition for more sustainability?

AGENDA 2025: Less competition for more sustainability?

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This article is part of the D’Kart Spotlights: AGENDA 2025, in which experts from academia and practice comment on aspects of the Competition Policy Agenda presented by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The contributions already published can be found here. In our spotlight series about AGENDA 2025, several authors have expressed their views about competition and sustainability. Felix Rhiel and Frank Schlütter do the same, but with a focus on risks associated with industry cooperation. “what…

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SSNIPpets (44): One out of two

SSNIPpets (44): One out of two

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How fortunate that winter has returned once again, restaurants in Düsseldorf are still closed and the vaccinations are taking their time. This way Rupprecht Podszun can first sift through all the antitrust snippets that have piled up on his desk. Today it’s all about China, drug prices and birthday parties. Here are his SSNIPpets – small, but significant news, information and pleasantries – our pet project! Choose one of the two In China, there is not exactly competition for leadership…

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SSNIPpets (40): European Competition Days

SSNIPpets (40): European Competition Days

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On some days the antitrust lawyer does not know where to look first, so much is happening. Rupprecht Podszun has no other choice. Without claiming to be complete, correct or chucklesome, he has noted down what he noticed recently in the wonderful world of competition. Here are his SSNIPpets – small but significant news, information and pleasantries – our pet project! Jubilee Line Is this a good day to send SSNIPpets? 60 years ago, OPEC, the infamous cartel of oil-exporting…

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Conference Debriefing (20): ASCOLA2020

Conference Debriefing (20): ASCOLA2020

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The Academic Society for Competition Law, ASCOLA, regularly brings together the academics who research and teach in the area of competition – even this year! Instead of going to lovely Porto, however, the community of antitrust aficionados met in a three-day-Zoom-conference. Rupprecht Podszun was one of the hosts. He is the Ascola Vice President, and defying all journalistic ethics, he interviews himself here and gives his personal conference debrief for the readers of D’Kart. Thankfully, less biased Friso Bostoen shares…

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SSNIPpets 39: Basteln und bauen

SSNIPpets 39: Basteln und bauen

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The time of working from home is for many people a time for DIY – the author of these lines met a well-known Düsseldorf antitrust law partner in the very long queue to a DIY store on a Corona-Saturday. The European Commission is also currently working on all kinds of things. And the courts are anyway. Time for a workshop report by Rupprecht Podszun. Here are his SSNIPpets – small but significant news, information and pleasantries – our pet project!…

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Is she the future Commission President?
Vestager!

Vestager!

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Breaking News: Margrethe Vestager remains in charge of competition in the new European Commission. While overseeing the digital agenda of the Commission as a Vice President, she will also head DG COMP as the Commissioner. Enforcing competition rules, dealing with state aid and coordinating the digital promises of Ursula von der Leyen’s college of Commissioners seems a lot for one person – but, hey, she took on Google, Apple and the like without fear. Mme. Vestager will probably become the…

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SSNIPpets (28): Far-away countries and people

SSNIPpets (28): Far-away countries and people

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Commissioner Vestager gives us a break after the European elections. She is antichambering her own affairs, so antitrust enforcement has been postponed for a few days. This gives Rupprecht Podszun the opportunity to look through the pile of paper on his virtual desk, which has grown far too high. Here are his SSNIPpets – small but significant news, information and pleasantries – our pet project! Market dominance Two observations on the European elections, since this was a competition : Several…

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Is she the future Commission President?
Conference Debriefing (6): Shaping the future of competition policy

Conference Debriefing (6): Shaping the future of competition policy

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Meet the latest conference host in the Brussels circuit – it is no one else but Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. She made her entry into that market with a bang: Presenting a Nobel prize winner and other notable and notorious figures for free. Someone obviously learned the “think big and make it free” lesson from Silicon Valley… The conference about the future of competition policy was heavily overbooked, but Rupprecht Podszun was one of the 700 or so in the Charlemagne…

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Sowas nutzt heutzutage doch keine Schule mehr!
SSNIPpets (19) – Björn Herbers über die Brüsseler Schule

SSNIPpets (19) – Björn Herbers über die Brüsseler Schule

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Der Sommer ist vorbei, sogar mit der Sommerzeit nimmt es ein Ende, die Ferien sind vorbei, und die Eltern zittern wieder den ersten Tests in der Schule entgegen. Nur im Düsseldorfer Institut für Kartellrecht ruht noch der Vorlesungsbetrieb und also setzt das D’Kart-Team weiterhin auf kompetente Gastautoren. Heute analysiert Björn Herbers aus dem Brüsseler Büro von CMS schon einmal den Stundenplan für die kommenden Wochen. Hier sind seine SSNIPpets: small, but significant news, information and pleasantries – our pet project!…

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Press conference by Margrethe Vestager on a antitrust case (Google Android)
Google Android: A first read of the Commission’s second hit against Google

Google Android: A first read of the Commission’s second hit against Google

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Google Android is talk of the town in Competitionopolis. While the decision in full has not yet been published by the European Commission, it is obvious that it will shape our understanding of Art. 102 TFEU. D’Kart asked Anna Huttenlauch to share her thoughts on the legal aspects known so far of the Commission’s pre-summer-break-mega-case 2018, and – lucky us! – she accepted to comment. One year after the European Commission fined Google €2.4 billion for abusing its dominance in…

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