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EU Announces New Online Child Safety Proposal: EU KIDS ACT
 |  Sep 29, 2026

By: Joanna Conway & Stuart Neely (Norton Rose Fulbright) In this piece for Norton Rose Fulbright's Connections blog, authors Joanna Conway & Stuart Neely look at the EU KIDS ACT,...

ROGON and RRC Sports: The EU’s Top Court Vindicates a Pragmatic Application of the Antitrust Sporting Exemption to Players’ Agent Regulations
 |  Sep 14, 2026

By Laurie-Anne Grelier, Sofía Gruner Kahn & Deniz Akduman (Covington) In this article for Covington & Burling, authors Laurie-Anne Grelier, Sofía Gruner Kahn & Deniz Akduman (Covington) discuss two July 2026 judgments by the...

Modernising EU Competition Policy: From Guidelines to Outcomes
 |  Aug 7, 2026

By: Helen Jenkins (Top of the Agenda/Oxera Consulting) In this Oxera podcast with host Helen Jenkins, participants discuss the European Commission’s revised Merger Guidelines, one of the most significant developments...

Why the GDPR Still Thinks We Live in a Newspaper World. European Courts, the Journalistic Exemption, and the Public Sphere
 |  Jul 24, 2026

By: Emiliano Vitaliani (Dublin City University Law & Tech) In this blog entry for the DCU Law & Tech Research Cluster, author Emilianio Vitaliani explores the growing tension between data...

New EU Guidance on AI Transparency: What Should Companies Be Doing From 2 August 2026
 |  Jul 24, 2026

By: Elisabet Cots, Silvia Sáenz de Ormijana & Rut Alemany (Baker McKenzie) This blog from authors Elisabet Cots, Silvia Sáenz de Ormijana & Rut Alemany (Baker McKenzie) offers an overview of the European...

Looking Beyond the Tech Sovereignty Package: How the EU is Moving to Ensure Tech Sector Resilience
 |  Jul 23, 2026

By:Paul Maynard, Jadzia Pierce & Sam Jungyun Choi (Covington & Burling)   In this blog post for Inside Global Tech, authors Paul Maynard, Jadzia Pierce & Sam Jungyun Choi (Covington...

Remedies In EU Competition Law: Between Caution, Creativity and Structural Change
 |  Jun 26, 2026

Remedies are central to EU competition law enforcement: without them, identifying anticompetitive conduct is largely futile. Yet the Commission’s remedial record in digital markets – exemplified by Microsoft, Google Shopping,...

The EU Commission’s Approach to Age Verification: Mobile Apps, DSA Enforcement, and Challenging National Social Media Bans
 |  Jun 8, 2026

By: Bianca-Ioana Marcu & Daniel Hales (Future of Privacy Forum) This piece by authors Bianca-Ioana Marcu & Daniel Hales for the Future of Privacy Forum takes a look at the...

The Constitutional Invalidity of the New Competition Tool… Even In Geopolitical Times
 |  May 28, 2026

This article discusses Mario Draghi’s suggestion to battle increasingly uncompetitive markets in the EU by way of a so-called New Competition Tool (NCT). The NCT is a flexible tool that...

The (Geo)Political Identity of the DMA
 |  May 28, 2026

This article offers a provocative reading of the Digital Markets Act as something more than a competition instrument. The authors suggest that beneath debates over fairness, contestability, and compliance lies...

Aligning Innovation and Better Regulation in Europe: A Science For Policy Perspective

This article argues that regulation and innovation in the European Union can be mutually reinforcing when guided by science-for-policy. In light of concerns about Europe’s competitiveness and innovation gap, it...

Dawn Raids by the European Commission: Some Lessons from Recent EU Court Decisions
 |  Mar 6, 2026

By: Charles Whiddington (Steptoe Antitrust) In this blog post for Steptoe Antitrust, author Charles Whiddington explains that the European Commission has entered 2026 with an active cartel enforcement agenda across...

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