Competition Issues in the Digital Era – EU Developments

By Kyriakos Fountoukakos & Samuel Hall

Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has labelled digitization the “one big change that overshadows everything else.” There is healthy debate among the competition law community as to whether such statements are exaggerated. Indeed, an alternative perspective is that competition law is flexible enough to deal with issues in the digital sector without any significant amendments in approach but rather by simply applying the existing rules in