In this issue, we describe the UK’s efforts to block the United Arab Emirates from pushing into the country’s media market, and ask whether this offers a model for how the U.S. can handle foreign investment of U.S. media assets.
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Open Markets Europe director Max Von Thun was interviewed on “The Tech Brief” podcast, where he discussed how Europe can better approach competition policy and directed listeners to a recently published manifesto, which outlined how the European Union can put antimonopoly at the heart of its policy agenda.
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Center for Journalism and Liberty director Dr. Courtney Radsch was quoted in an article on preventing the spread of fake news.
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Open Markets Institute’s executive director Barry Lynn called for regulators to focus on harms to democracy and human liberty.
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Open Markets executive director Barry Lynn’s “rule of four" notion, stipulating that “no country should hold more than a 25% market share in any crucial commodity such as critical minerals,” in an article on China’s overwhelming control over many key natural resources.
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The Open Markets Institute writes a letter on how Canada could strengthen its antimonopoly laws, including on merger review, exclusive dealing and other forms of unfair competition and vertical restraints.
Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun released the following statement with regard to Apple’s designation as a “platform of paramount significance for competition” under Section 19a of the German Competition Act (GWB), and the approval by Germany’s federal cabinet of new powers for Germany’s competition regulator the Bundeskartellamt.
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun teams up with the Balanced Economy Project, and the European Digital SME Alliance sending an open letter to the EC on EU responses to U.S. investments in a clean energy transition.
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Join us on Wednesday February 15th as Open Markets & Partners Convene Top Antimonopoly Thinkers, Including Senator Elizabeth Warren, AAG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter, Novelist Ayad Akhtar, CWA President Sara Nelson, & others!
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The Open Markets Institute executive director Barry Lynn released the following statement on the Department of Justice’s intent to bring suit against Google parent company, Alphabet, over its monopolization of digital advertising.
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Executive director Barry Lynn publishes an explanatory article in the Washington Monthly on supply chains within the Biden Administration’s international policies and chokepoint strategy.
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The Open Markets Institute executive director Barry Lynn featured his piece in the Washington Monthly laying out the next steps for the United States on industrial policy, to liberate from shackles of corporate monopolization.
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In this issue, we discuss how Europe’s Digital Markets Act could make a global impact and the risks of Big Tech’s payment systems. We also take a look at Open Markets’ top accomplishments in 2021.
Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway discusses how to use antitrust to reign in corporate recklessness and create long-term food supply chain resiliency.
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Citing Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn, Warren condemns manufacturing concentration.
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See Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn’s full testimony.
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Open Markets applauds the FTC for demonstrating a commitment to ensuring the resiliency and robustness of the semiconductor industry.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks at the 3rd annual Antitrust & Tech Conference co-hosted by The George Washington University Competition Law Center and Crowell & Moring.
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