Antitrust, Mergers, State Aid and Consumer policy under the same umbrella – does a political compromise prevails to expert approach?

The aim of this contribution is to provide critical view on different challenges in broader competition law and policy with specific regard to institutional capacities of authorities  being in charge of competition protection, either in competition law enforcement or in advocacy activities.

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EU perspective on private and central bank digital currencies

‘European Union perspective on private and central bank digital currencies’ has become a trending topic in the last years especially due to disruptive technological shift towards digital payments and away from traditional banking services as we know it. During the rapid growth of several cryptocurrencies globally and locally different campaigns arose to support the ever-growing initiatives related to the implementation of a single centralized digital currency on a European level which would potentially serve all member states equally.

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