29 April 2024
Overcoming Big Tech AI Merger Evasions: Innovating EU Competition Law through the AI Act
To develop AI, computing power and access to data (aka bigness) are crucial. Now, Big Tech companies appear evading EU competition law. Companies like Google and Microsoft evade the EU Merger Regulation by entering partnerships with smaller AI labs that fall short of shifting ownership but nevertheless increase the monopolistic power of Big Tech. These quasi-mergers are particularly problematic in the context of generative AI, which relies even more than many other services on incredibly vast computing power. That is a dire state from an economic as well as a more fundamental and democratic perspective, as concentrating economic might in the hands of very few companies may cause problems down the road. Continue reading >>
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15 February 2019
In Search of a Role for the Member States and the EU to Establish an Investment Screening Mechanism
Investments in enterprises, which are relevant for public security and services, are an important source of growth, jobs and innovations. But such investments can be detrimental to the security of supply for the community members – for example, when a state owned enterprise, which is located in a third state, gets control over the only electricity station in a Member State. Continue reading >>15 February 2019
What Powers at What Level?
How to allocate the powers to collect information, surveil and restrict investment between the EU and the Member States? This question has far reaching ramifications for the underlying political relationship between the EU and its Member States. Continue reading >>
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08 February 2019
Access to Legal Redress in an EU Investment Screening Mechanism
The proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and […] Continue reading >>
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07 February 2019
Investment Screening in the Defence Industry – News from the Bermuda Triangle of EU Law
The national investment screening mechanisms for the defence and security […] Continue reading >>
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