etail services are a key intermediary service in the modern economy acting as the conduit between thousands of product suppliers and consumers: according to Eurostat (2013), retail services account for 4.3% of the EU's GDP, 8.3% of European employees and 17% of SMEs. Over the past decade, the...

On 15th December, 2018, the Florence Competition Programme (FCP) organized its second advanced competition seminar in the context of the FCP Annual Training, 2018/2019 edition. The seminar focused on the high-profile Facebook case, recently decided by the Bundeskartellamt (German Competition...

Historically Okinawa has been the 'keystone' of the Western Pacific. In other words, whoever controls the so-called First Island Chain, which runs from the Japanese mainland through to Itbayat and Basco, with the Ryukyu Islands at its centre, exercises power over much of the East China Sea (ECS)...