Just over six weeks into Andy Burnham’s premiership, the signs point to continuity rather than radical change in UK competition policy. Jonathan Reynolds’ return as business minister and his decision to retain... (more story)

MLex Summary: An Italian citizen cannot rely on an EU cartel sanction — relating to the Euribor interest rate benchmark — to have a local court strike down the interest rate that he or she received for a mortg... (more story)

MLex Summary: Healthcare services provider Uniphar faces an in-depth merger investigation in Ireland over its completed acquisition of pharmacy software supplier TouchStore, the national competition authority ... (more story)

Short social media posts may be protected by copyright law and subject to exceptions for media outlets that report on current events, the EU’s top court said on Thursday. Romania’s additional restrictions, whi... (more story)

India's Supreme Court could clarify whether hotels need separate copyright licenses for television broadcasts when cable operators are already licensed, potentially defining where one licensing obligation ends... (more story)

A former employee who helped a company’s departing president transfer information to businesses that went on to operate competing services was liable for assisting trade-secret misuse, an Osaka court has ruled.

Philippine negotiators have raised concerns that the EU’s planned “Made in Europe” preferences could restrict access to its market, even as Brussels seeks greater openness from Manila through an advancing free... (more story)

The European Commission is moving to exclude three companies from participating in public tenders in Greece’s energy sector, after they failed to provide enough information under rules designed to reveal the i... (more story)

Five Turkish steel companies have lost their EU top-court challenge concerning anti-dumping duties imposed on hot-rolled flat steel products in 2021. The dispute included whether the European Commission should... (more story)

MLex Summary: Governments should require digital platforms to meet safety-by-design standards, strengthen regulators’ enforcement powers and update laws to cover online grooming, sexual extortion and AI-genera... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Computer & Communications Industry Association applauded US District Judge Leonie Brinkema's order in the Google adtech monopolization case, which rejected a structural remedy and opted for o... (more story)

Google persuaded a US judge not to break up its adtech business, putting the European Commission in an awkward position of deciding whether to settle for the same solution or push for an asset sale and risk a ... (more story)