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The European Commission plans to launch new investigations into apparently unfair tax deals between member states and powerful companies, despite recent court rulings going against the enforcer, Margrethe Vestager has said.

20 March 2023

The Competition Commission of South Africa is set to probe concerns about the relationship between digital platforms and news publishers, including how new technologies such as ChatGPT use media content.

20 March 2023

Claimants in a £1.5 billion class action claim against Apple have urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to order the iPhone maker to explain how it deems 7,000 documents filed to the country’s antitrust watchdog are irrelevant to the lawsuit.

20 March 2023

The European Commission has cleared Orange’s €1.8 billion acquisition of Belgian rivals Voo and Brutélé subject to the buyer giving the country’s largest cable broadband provider access to two of its internet services networks for the next decade.

20 March 2023

Japan’s competition watchdog plans to triple the number of lawyers working on digital economy matters as local lawyers predict increased enforcement in the sector.

17 March 2023

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has reportedly told TikTok that it risks a total ban in the US if it does not spin-off from its Chinese owners, drawing a sharp rebuke from Beijing.

17 March 2023

Mexico’s telecommunications regulator has opened two market studies to assess how access to radio spectrum and the availability of distribution channels affects competition in the mobile telecoms sector.

17 March 2023

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has said it may revoke its previous decision to certify a £400 million opt-out abuse of dominance claim against Govia Thameslink Railway now that the claimants’ expert economist has withdrawn from the proceedings.

17 March 2023

Jordan’s parliament has approved the enactment of a new competition law that will expand abuse of dominance rules and increase fines for cartel conduct but a former government minister has claimed the legislation is “deformed and paralysed”.

17 March 2023

The Swedish government has adopted draft foreign investment control rules that are due to come into force in December, making it the last Nordic country to introduce such a regime.

17 March 2023