January 15, 2019
On the 26th April 2018, the European Commission adopted a proposal for regulating the relationships between online platforms and their business consumers.
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December 1, 2018
The Commission’s decision to fine Google for unfair practice was based on a misunderstanding of the Android ecosystem and a mistaken definition of the relevant market. This allowed Google’s activities to be wrongly cast as those of a monopoly abusing its position.
December 1, 2017
The 2017 IBL Index of Liberalisations aims to shed light on the degree of openness of the 28 Member States by examining ten different economic sectors. First published in 2007, the Index began classifying all of the 28 EU Member States in 2015.
September 15, 2017
In a recent joint letter to the Commission, Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc./Google, based on their local revenue.
May 1, 2017
According to the latest IBL Super Index, the degree of internal divergence within Eurozone countries keeps increasing. This means that the gap between Eurozone periphery countries, such as – for example – Italy, and other comparable countries in the European Union is widening.
June 16, 2016
As of 9 June 2016, the new European rules on inter-bank commission fees for card-based payment transactions were fully enforced.
May 16, 2016
“When I turned 15, my parents gave me a copy of “The Road to Serfdom”.
March 29, 2016
The mayhem in financial markets we have observed in the last few months gave renewed prominence to the issue of financial credibility.
February 3, 2016
The founder of Public Choice theory, Nobel Laureate James Buchanan, called it “politics without romance”.
