Antitrust Chronicle® – EU Merger Guidelines

October 2026 - 1

The European Commission’s Draft Merger Guidelines, published on 30 April 2026, are the most significant rewrite of EU merger control since the 2004 Merger Regulation. This edition of the Chronicle gathers the views of economists, practitioners and civil society voices on the changes made, and their effects...

September 2026 - 2

National security has entered competition analysis by a variety of unmarked entrances — statements of interest, remedy definitions, settlement decisions, investment screening, and trade measures whose competitive consequences arrive uninvited. This edition of the Chronicle takes up what follows.

September 2026 - 1

This edition of the Chronicle is devoted to computational antitrust — a term that, five years ago, still had to be defined before it could be discussed, and which now describes a working practice inside dozens of competition agencies.