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EU industry, investors to get clear paths to green-transition aid under new plan February 14, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

Investors, cleantech industry and energy companies will be offered streamlined pathways to gain state support in an overhaul of EU subsidy rules aimed at accelerating Europe’s push to decarbonization, MLex has... (more story)

Ryanair sues EU Commission to force state-aid injunction on Lufthansa February 11, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Ryanair has taken the EU’s state aid regulator to court for refusing to force Deutsche Lufthansa to pay penalties and reimburse benefits flowing from its Covid-19 bailout pending a fresh inquiry into its legal... (more story)

Renewable energy practices could spark anticompetitive concerns, Indian watchdog fears February 10, 2025 | Freny Patel

Renewable energy practices could spark anticompetitive concerns, prompting the Indian watchdog to undertake a market study as the country works toward achieving 500 gigawatts of non-fossil fuel-based energy ca... (more story)

ABC Technologies files TI Fluid Systems acquisition for EU foreign-subsidy review February 07, 2025 | Karoline Del Vecchio

Canadian company ABC Technologies has sought EU foreign-subsidy clearance to buy British automotive components company TI Fluid Systems, according to an update on the European Commission's register of deals. ... (more story)

Hosting DeepSeek in India will address data privacy concerns, minister says January 31, 2025 | Freny Patel

India plans to host DeepSeek servers, according to a key minister, which would address any potential data privacy concerns surrounding the new Chinese artificial intelligence platform. Electronics and IT Minis... (more story)

Dutch agency can give guidance to companies cooperating on innovation, head says January 30, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

The Dutch competition authority has invited companies wishing to cooperate with rivals on innovation but who are concerned about breaching antitrust law to come speak to it, said Dutch antitrust boss Martijn S... (more story)

UK's political meddling in antitrust is ‘cautionary tale’ for EU, Coeuré warns January 30, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

UK competition regulators have had their wings clipped by their government, the head of France’s competition authority said, making for "a cautionary tale of how antitrust enforcement can be cut back by politi... (more story)

Companies need entrepreneurial freedom not antitrust reform, Mundt says January 30, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Slashing bureaucracy and unleashing entrepreneurial freedom is what the EU economy needs rather than a reform of competition law, according to Andreas Mundt, the head of Germany’s antitrust agency.

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EU hydrogen bank’s state aid tool is here to stay December 26, 2024 | Stefano Porciello

The EU hydrogen bank’s option to use EU-wide auctions to guide national funding has the potential to align national and EU financial firepower toward common objectives. The tool developed for hydrogen is alrea... (more story)

Nuclear industry still unclear over EU policy direction after commissioner hearings November 13, 2024 | Stefano Porciello

Any hopes in the EU nuclear-power industry that lawmakers' questioning of candidates to front the next European Commission would bring clarity over the EU approach to sector’s future were frustrated again yest... (more story)

Comment: For Covestro deal, ADNOC should study EU foreign-subsidy troubles that e&-PPF had October 04, 2024 | Tono Gil and Andrew Boyce

Efforts by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to complete its buyout of Germany’s Covestro will undoubtedly include a close study of the remedies that Emirates Telecommunications Group recently offered to win ... (more story)

Need for speed will see Ribera revisit EU’s competition rulebook September 26, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

The edict is writ large for the EU’s new competition enforcer: go faster. When Teresa Ribera takes up the reins later this year, one of her main challenges will be to accelerate the machinery of enforcement, c... (more story)

PPF-e& clearance shows EU foreign-subsidy rules have room for compromise September 24, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

Dealmakers may have been concerned that the EU’s new foreign-subsidy rulebook might leave their transactions in limbo, but today’s decision to clear a United Arab Emirates-backed deal — two and a half months b... (more story)

Comment: Von der Leyen’s organization of nominees raises questions about power balances in next EU Commission September 20, 2024 | Jean Comte and Matthew Newman

Ursula von der Leyen’s proposed complex European Commission structure features six executive vice-presidents with overlapping portfolios, plus three senior commissioners who report directly to her. The structu... (more story)

Comment: Ribera journeys from price-cap champion to EU’s competition and climate chief September 17, 2024 | Tono Gil, Lewis Crofts, Nicholas Hirst and Stefano Porciello

Spanish environmentalist Teresa Ribera will be one of the most influential voices in EU policymaking for the next five years, wielding powers to stop illegal mergers and corporate conduct, as well as driving t... (more story)

Vestager’s Apple victory is unlikely to trigger new state aid probes September 10, 2024 | Nicholas Hirst

Apple’s defeat at the EU top court today is a massive victory for outgoing competition chief Margrethe Vestager, but is unlikely to trigger a flood of new probes into the tax affairs of multinationals.