Steering into Price Control: Why the CMA’s App-Store Proposals Go beyond What is Necessary
There is a conceptual problem right at the heart of the consultations on proposed steering conduct requirements (CRs) for Apple and Google by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK. On the...
Patent Enforcement Spiralling Out of Control: What Happens When Injunctions Are Taken Away?
In a recent Insight, we argued that weakening injunctive relief through a reform of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) is wrong. An argument against injunctive relief that has been kicking around the...
New study reveals hidden economic and environmental costs of soil compaction in Europe
A new open-access study co-authored by FARMWISE researcher Landon J. S. Halloran has used a continent-scale modelling framework to investigate how soil compaction could affect European agriculture and the wider environment under future climate...
Policy and practice watch:
Questions FARMWISE shares with the EU CAP Network Every so often a newsletter lands in the inbox that feels less like external news and more like a mirror held up to your own work....
From nitrate hotspots to hard choices: FARMWISE at EGU 2026
Some scientific problems are easier to find than to fix. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is one of them: diffuse, stubborn, and deeply bound up with the way food is grown across Europe. It can...
Drawing Down the Well
For three days in May, Hamburg played host to a question with no easy answer: how can Europe’s farmers keep working the land as the water they depend on grows scarcer and less predictable?...
