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ARTICLE · 27 DECEMBER 2024

BRUSSELS À JOUR – Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

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Christmas is the season of warm wishes, mince pies, Glühwein at the Christmas Market… and a final review of the most significant competition law developments of the year that was. In our annual Christmas issue.

BelgiumAntitrust/Competition Law
Markus Röhrig
Markus Röhrig
Christian Dankerl
Christian Dankerl
Philipp Heuser
Philipp Heuser
Christoph Sielmann
Christoph Sielmann

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Christmas is the season of warm wishes, mince pies, Glühwein at the Christmas Market... and a final review of the most significant competition law developments of the year that was. In our annual Christmas issue, we look at what has shaped the year in the key fields of competition law – antitrust, merger control, FSR, and State aid – and what the takeaways are for 2025.

Antitrust

It's the most wonderful time of the year to reflect on key events in antitrust enforcement. So what was going on in 2024

  • It seems – or is it only our gut feeling? – that these days, dawn raids are (again) on the rise. While we still have not seen official figures concerning these unwanted visits, which are not only inconvenient during the holiday season, it seems that this classical form of competition law enforcement is back on the agenda of the European Commission and National enforcers. BTW – 24th December is a Tuesday this year... so fingers

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