It has become conventional wisdom to view the rulings handed down by the Court of First Instance in <i>Airtours, Schneider, Tetra Laval</i> and <i>Impala</i> as unprecedented setbacks for the European Commission that would usher in a new era of administrative accountability in the field of merger control.

Was the Lisbon Treaty primarily only remotely concerned with the practice of competition law?

The credit ratings oligopoly has the stigmata of antitrust concerns. Nicolas Petit & Norman Neyrinck (University of Liege School of Law (ULg)

Interestingly, while all the evidence points to the existence of a competition problem in the rating industry, almost nothing has been written on whether the CRAs could be amenable to antitrust scrutiny. (Nicolas Petit & Norman Neyrinck, Univ. of Liege School of Law )

Can CRAs’ recent downgrading of sovereign ratings trigger antitrust liability? Nicolas Petit & Norman Neyrinck (Univ. of Liege)

Was the Lisbon Treaty primarily only remotely concerned with the practice of competition law? NIcolas Petit, Norman Neyrinck (University of Liege)

The main objective of this paper is to examine the state of adoption and implementation of competition rules in the 12 Southern Mediterranean countries (the "Mediterranean Partners") engaged in association agreements with the EC in the framework of the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995.