Bethan John

České dráhy has vowed to fight what it described as a “legally flawed” decision by the European Commission to sanction it for colluding with Austrian railway operator ÖBB to restrict a new rival from scaling up.

The EU’s top court has confirmed the annulment of the European Commission’s landmark €1.08 billion penalty against Intel, though the long-running debate about the agency’s enforcement in exclusionary conduct cases is far from over.

The Paris Commercial Court has ordered Google to pay €26.5 million to rival Equativ for the losses it suffered because of the search giant’s unlawful self-preferencing, marking the first time a European court has held the company liable for damages in the adtech sector.

The UK and European Commission have reached a much-anticipated agreement to cooperate on competition cases, but the pact will not see a return to pre-Brexit levels of information sharing.

The European Commission is probing whether Corning is abusing its dominance through its alleged exclusive agreements with phone makers, though signalled commitment discussions are on the table.

ByteDance will argue before the European Court of Justice that a lower court ruling upholding its designation under the Digital Markets Act makes it effectively impossible to counter the quantitative presumptions set out in the regulation.

Competition policy took a backseat during Teresa Ribera’s fractious confirmation hearing before EU lawmakers last night, offering a reminder of the unprecedented and wide-ranging mandate the bloc’s next antitrust chief will have to balance if appointed.

The European Commission has slapped Meta with a €797.72 million penalty over its abusive Facebook Marketplace tying practices, the first EU antitrust fine against the company in its 20 years of existence.

Visa and Mastercard’s agreements with banks, as well as sharply rising and increasingly complex card scheme fees, are anticompetitively harming the European payments industry, merchants and third parties have warned.

The European Commission has failed to convince a Belgian appellate court that the targets of its own cartel decision forced it to overpay for elevator and escalator contracts.