Ukraine’s Upcoming 5G Auction: Trust, Rules, Money

For most of the past two years, Ukraine’s telecommunications policy has been viewed through the lens of wartime resilience. Keeping networks operating amid missile attacks, restoring damaged infrastructure and ensuring continuity of government communications...

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    The Black Sea Region – NATO’s Strategic Test

    The security environment in the Black Sea region continues to deteriorate. Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports and maritime infrastructure, together with incidents affecting NATO Allies and European partners across the region, show that the...

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      Towards a More Realistic EU China Debate

      One major focus of autumnal Brussels trade and industrial policy conversation will be relations with China and the belief that protection is needed to avoid economic doom. Much of this debate unfortunately rests on...

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        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...

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          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...

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            The Commission’s DMA Specification Decisions on Google: A Case of Regulatory Privilege Escalation

            It is understood and accepted by most experts and observers that platform companies like Apple, Google, and Meta are large, systemic, and should be subject to competition disciplines. It is therefore a mystery that,...

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