Insights
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Patent Enforcement Spiralling Out of Control: What Happens When Injunctions Are Taken Away?
By: Dyuti PandyaIn a recent Insight, we argued that weakening injunctive relief through a reform of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) is...
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Steering into Price Control: Why the CMA’s App-Store Proposals Go beyond What is Necessary
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesThere is a conceptual problem right at the heart of the consultations on proposed steering conduct requirements (CRs) for Apple and Google by the...
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The Commission’s DMA Specification Decisions on Google: A Case of Regulatory Privilege Escalation
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIt is understood and accepted by most experts and observers that platform companies like Apple, Google, and Meta are large, systemic, and should be...
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Beijing Is Not Coercing Spain: Madrid Is Providing the Influence for Free
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn 2025, Spain became one of the primary targets of Chinese investments in Europe, with EV-related commitments up 147 per cent – third in Europe...
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Summer Reading List 2026
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Dyuti PandyaThe rising temperatures may have told us that summer arrived some time ago, but the holiday season is now just around the corner – bringing with it...
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What a New Prime Minister Means for UK Trade Policy
Research Areas: UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: David HenigAndy Burnham will be the UK’s seventh Prime Minister since June 2016, an embarrassment for a country that thought its electoral system brought...
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Reassessing the Case for IPRED Injunction Reform: Proportionality, Evidence and European Patent Enforcement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceThe European Union seems to be revisiting an old debate about injunctions and injunctive relief in patent disputes. Although the debate focuses on...
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The AI Risk Nobody Is Regulating: Market Gatekeeping
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesTags: AIBy: Guest AuthorBy Heidi Lund, a Senior Adviser at the National Board of Trade Sweden and author of the study Collective Societal Risks: A Blind Spot in AI...
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Before the Gatekeeper: AI and the Limits of Ex Ante Competition Regulation
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEight weeks ago, the European Commission concluded its review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) – its landmark regulation of technology platforms....
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Taxing Silicon Valley – or Taxing France?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy UncategorisedBy: Matthias BauerFew policies better illustrate the gap between political rhetoric and economic reality than France's digital services tax. Marketed as an exercise in...
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Lame Duck Status Poses Risks for Ukraine
By: Frank LavinIt is not simply that Trump enters his ninth decade on his June 14 birthday, bringing the inevitable questions about health and stamina. Beyond the...
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Another Attack on Europe’s Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerGermany's Uber Ruling Shows Why Regulatory Protectionism Endures Europe's leaders cannot stop talking about competitiveness. Every European Council...