In recent months, the European Commission has faced a surge in protectionist moves by Member States designed to protect national companies from foreign acquirers. To resist those attempts, it has relied on a relatively peculiar yet theoretically powerful tool: Article 21 of the EC Merger...

On July 11, 2007, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities issued two important judgments in the field of competition law, <i>Schneider Electric v. Commission</i> (cf. T-351/03), and <i>Alrosa Company Ltd. v. Commission</i> (cf. T-170/06). The <i>Alrosa</i> ruling received much less press coverage...

This paper describes three factors that contributed to shaping the role played so far by the Commission in its capacity as the major antitrust enforcement authority in the management of the financial crisis in Europe and, hence, the contribution of EC competition law to a solution of the crisis,...

In spite of the silence of the Commission, a lot has happened on the Article 82 front since June 2006. This paper discusses these developments and weighs the pros and cons of releasing guidelines.

: E58, E65, G21, G28, K21, K22

How to bridge the gap between the transformations resulting from the modernization process and the scope of the EU Courts hybrid jurisdiction in antitrust matters? Damien M.B. Gerard (University of Louvain)