From legal tool to political shortcut? The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) was initially designed as a legal tool to ensure that foreign state support does not distort competition in the EU internal market. It seeks to scrutinize subsidies by non-EU countries similar to state aid provided by EU countries. That was the idea. However,…
On June 2, 2025, the EU Commission (Commission) rendered its decision in re Case AT.40795 Delivery Hero/Glovo (Delivery Hero). This is an important new precedent, to be delivered as part of any deal-making post-integration compliance training. Failure to heed the guidance contained in Delivery Hero is risky, as now also tangibly illustrated by the size…
On 23 January 2018, Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) handed down its judgment on allegedly anti-competitive requests for preferential rebates and conditions by food retailers (case KVR 3/17 – not yet published). This is an important judgment as it removes a major roadblock to antitrust enforcement in the food retail sector in Germany,…
