Returnees into Europe from the party camp which is ABA Antitrust Law Section #SpringMeetings2025 in DC write breathlessly on social media about their networking prowess and party exhaustion and how everything was just wonderful. I mean, y’all: what planet. cristinacaffarra.blog/2025/04/07/aba…

Should we foster the creation of European industrial champions? Don’t miss the debate with ➡️Cristina Caffarra speaking for and ⬅️Jan Eeckhout speaking against it at the Brussels Economic Forum! Join #EUBEF25 on 22 May to share your views! 🔗ec.europa.eu/bef

Rana Foroohar Cristina Caffarra on European antitrust's effort to regulate Big Tech: "I would like to inject a dose of realism, a reality check, into these assessments, are we winning? Absolutely, emphatically, not in any dimensions. We are not winning."

But, Cristina Caffarra says that "there is a huge vibe shift" in Europe. Europe now understands that it must build its own tech infrastructure after Trump tariffs and the "defenestration" of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy from the Oval Office on Feb. 28

Rana Foroohar to Cristina Caffarra: "I know that you were a fan of some of what was done in the Biden administration, because it forced the topic of power. Is Trump making Europe great again, in sense of forcing them to think about power?" Cristina Caffarra: "The silver line for

“We have to be cautious with digital corporations because we have no real alternatives to the offering by the American digital industry,” said German finance minister Jörg Kukies, mentioning data centres for cloud services and artificial intelligence. If this is not an advert

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💡 Excellent discussion last week @CEPRResearch Competition RPN event on 𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻: 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀. Some key messages from

Today begins the final chapter for this historic litigation. The Court has already decided liability, and Judge Mehta has made two things clear: 1) Google is a monopolist. 2) Google broke the law.   It illegally monopolized the online search and online search text ads markets.

This should be required reading also in Europe to understand where #US_antitrust is going. That is, IF there was such a thing in Europe as a worthwhile debate on the purpose & direction of antitrust and not the usual platitudes that “competition matters” and “should not be