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Trade

December 08, 2025 | Bradley Dress

Asia, North America

Trump announces $12bn aid package for US farmers
Child's face behind a smartphone

Technology

December 08, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Xu Yuan

North America

Social media giants say US school districts can't link design features, damages
US Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater.

DealRisk®, Energy, Mergers and Acquisitions

December 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Constellation, Calpine reach settlement with US DOJ, Texas AG

Antitrust View More

US FTC warns 13 property management software providers of competition concerns

December 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 unnamed property management software providers warning them to not hinder the ability of rental property managers and owners to accurately adver... (more story)

EU 'pivot' to exploitation probes addresses digital market dynamics, McCallum says

December 09, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

EU enforcers' more frequent moves to probe tech companies such as Apple and Google over suspicions they are exploiting customers — and not just excluding rivals — addresses the challenges of modern digital mar... (more story)

Greek electricity-supply sector sees antitrust raids

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Greece's competition watchdog has carried out surprise inspections at the premises over companies in "electricity generation and wholesale supply." The authority said the raids were part of its o... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Brazilian president submits new AI governance framework to Congress

December 09, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has submitted to Congress a sweeping proposal to regulate artificial intelligence in Brazil. The bill, No. 6237/2025, would create the National System for the Promotion and ... (more story)

More than 100 UK lawmakers call for AI regulation to prevent extinction risk

December 09, 2025 | Frank Hersey

Europe

More than 100 UK lawmakers have backed a campaign calling on the government to deliver on its commitment to bring draft legislation to regulate frontier AI systems.

ANPD supports Brazilian government’s AI bill, outlines governance plans

December 09, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

Iagê Zendron Miola, director of Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority, voiced support for the government’s bill to establish a national system for promoting and regulating artificial intelligence.

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

UK merger-efficiencies review to start in early 2026

December 09, 2025 | Jon Menon

Europe

The UK Competition and Markets Authority is to review its approach to merger efficiencies, or the benefits that may result from a deal under investigation, in early 2026. The CMA will start by seeking views fr... (more story)

Using competition policy as trade tool could backfire, French watchdog chief says

December 09, 2025 | Jean Comte

Europe

Using competition policy to achieve European trade goals could backfire at home, but it could play a role in boosting resilience to shocks and reducing strategic weaknesses, the president of the French competi... (more story)

CRH-Gibson deal to be probed by UK merger watchdog

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: CRH’s acquisition of Gibson is to be investigated by the UK antitrust regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority is seeking views from interested parties until Dec. 23 and hasn’t said when ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

YouTube says teen account bans backfire

December 09, 2025

Europe, Oceania

MLex Summary: YouTube says blanket account bans for teens are counterproductive, arguing that they push young people into less safe, unsupervised spaces online and strip parents of key controls. In a blog post... (more story)

US Sens. Grassley, Durbin introduce bipartisan bills to protect kids online

December 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin introduced three bipartisan bills that aim to "hold violent criminals accountable and combat the disturbing rise in online child exploitation." They introd... (more story)

US judge asks for more briefing on Michigan's standing for suit against Roku

December 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III of the Eastern District of Michigan requested additional briefing on Michigan's standing to bring a privacy lawsuit against Roku. The questions he has to c... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Motorola argues US damages award against Hytera should be enforceable in UK

December 09, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

Europe

Motorola argued on Tuesday that a UK law intended to counter American assertions of extraterritorial jurisdiction does not prevent it from seeking to enforce a US compensatory damages award for trade secrets i... (more story)

EU leaders aim for agreement on next EU multi-annual budget by end 2026

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU heads of state and government aim to reach an agreement on the bloc's budget for 2028 to 2034 "before the end of 2026," according to a draft declaration to be adopted at a summit planned for D... (more story)

Bayer ruling shows how Japan's patent linkage protects innovator communications

December 09, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan’s patent-linkage system came into sharp relief after a Tokyo court ruled for Bayer, clarifying how patent warnings and regulatory submissions stay shielded from unfair-competition attacks.

Financial Crime View More

Covid support program fraud cost UK taxpayers £10.9 billion, govt says

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK taxpayers lost £10.9 billion ($14.5 billion) due to fraud on the government's Covid emergency support programs, most of which will be impossible to retrieve, the finance ministry said on Tuesd... (more story)

New UK corruption strategy pledges tougher stance, focus on dirty money flows

December 08, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

The UK government has pledged to fight corruption with tougher enforcement, tighter standards across public life and a crackdown on illicit finance amid warnings that national security and public trust are bei... (more story)

New UK anti-corruption strategy published

December 08, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK government on Monday launched a new UK anti-corruption strategy, as it seeks to drive out dirty money and strengthen national security. The government committed to a series of reforms, inc... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Hutcherson reappointed as non-executive director to the FCA Board

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK financial sector veteran Sophie Hutcherson has been reappointed to the non-executive board of the Financial Conduct Authority for a second three-year term ending Apr. 16, 2029. The watchdog sa... (more story)

UK open-ended funds to see changes to liquidity risk management regime

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK authorized open-ended funds will see changes to the liquidity risk management regime under a Financial Conduct Authority consultation released on Tuesday. The watchdog said no fundamental chan... (more story)

UK financial firms consulted on rulebook changes after Consumer Duty introduced

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK financial firms have been invited to provide feedback on the UK financial watchdog's plans to update its rulebook following the introduction of the Consumer Duty requiring them to put their cu... (more story)

Trade View More

US Customs asks Commerce to decide whether steel billet imports violated duties

December 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection has asked the Commerce Department to determine whether Chinese imports of steel billets by the Thai firm Boly Pipe are covered by antidumping and countervailing d... (more story)

Turkish steel rebar producer appeals US CIT's antisubsidy ruling

December 09, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Turkish steel concrete reinforcing bar producer Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit challenging an October Court of Internati... (more story)

Put a handling fee on incoming low-value parcels, eight EU countries urge

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission must step up its action against non-EU e-commerce platforms that don't comply with the bloc's safety and product standards, including urgently introducing a European handl... (more story)

State Aid View More

Poland secures EU approval to support PEJ with €42bn for nuclear power plant

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Polish State-owned company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe may receive government aid worth around €42 billion to build and run a new nuclear power plant in Lubiatowo-Kopalino, the European Commissio... (more story)

No repurposing of trade tools for economic security, EU’s Redonnet says

December 09, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Lewis Crofts

Europe

The EU won’t repurpose its trade instruments or the Foreign Subsidies Regulation but will apply them through an economic-security lens, senior officials have said. Denis Redonnet said on Tuesday that tools bui... (more story)

Italy's €1.5bn plan for cleantech manufacturing can go ahead, EU watchdog says

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a €1.5 billion Italian plan to expand cleantech manufacturing capacity, supporting the objectives of the Clean Industrial Deal, which is the EU’s strategy to ... (more story)

Energy View More

Corporate sustainability simplification rules agreed by EU lawmakers, states

December 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers and governments have reached a deal on measures aimed to ease companies’ sustainability obligations, notably the simplification of the directives on corporate sustainability reportin... (more story)

Constellation case shows US focus on antitrust in consumer necessities

December 08, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Action by US government authorities against the merger of the Constellation Energy and Calpine power companies demonstrate a focus on the monopolization of nondiscretionary budget staples such as electricity.

Constellation settlement 'means lower prices for Texans,' Texas AG Paxton says

December 08, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the state's merger settlement with power generators Constellation Energy and Calpine, alongside the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, "helps en... (more story)

Technology View More

No plans to ban telecom mid-contract price increases, UK minister says

December 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

UK telecom providers won’t face a ban on mid-contract price rises, a government minister told Parliament on Tuesday, despite intensifying scrutiny of telecom pricing by the government and the sector regulator.... (more story)

Why does the US differ on content moderation? Blame the First Amendment

December 09, 2025 | Mike Swift

Europe, North America, Oceania

Government social media age restrictions, such as the one coming into force this week in Australia, or broad content-moderation laws such as those in the EU and the UK, are impossible in the US because they ar... (more story)

AI, digital identity systems cooperation agreed under EU-Canada partnership

December 09, 2025

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: Tighter cooperation on AI, digital identity systems and media independence was agreed at the first digital partnership council held between the EU and Canada. The partnership aims to increase the... (more story)