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@ACEA_auto organizes the #FutureDriven Experience Pop-up event! They invite you to come, you register, organize your agenda, but less than 24 hrs they sent email ''sorry, event is at full capacity, you cannot join us''. Very unprofessional organization. That's not serious.
I understand you can choose who you allow to attend, but if you register more than 1 month in advance, do not hear anything until the day before the event with a negative answer, that looks amateurish on your side.
Antitrust lawsuits can be literally...a fight!! mmafighting.com/2024/10/8/24… @lewis_crofts @JavierespFT @aoifewhite101 @SamuelStolton
DMA: The General Court dismisses the action brought by Bytedance (TikTok) against the decision of the Commission designating it as a gatekeeper.
Le #TribunalUE rejette le recours de #Bytedance (@TikTokComms) contre la décision de la @EU_Commission la désignant comme contrôleur d'accès #MarchésNumériques 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo…
Per @lewis_crofts report on the IMCO exchange of views with Vestager on the DMA: ''She singled out
Apple, whose new fee structure for an alternative distribution “may be put in place to scare developers away.” cc @nmorenobelloso 1/n
Vestager also ''singled out
Apple, whose new fee structure for an alternative distribution “may be put in place to scare developers away.” 2/n
Corrigendum: “I have no doubts that the compliance or non-compliance that we see comes from very deliberate choices being made,” this is the comment that troubles me re pre-judging the outcome of an open investigation, curious to hear views from experts like @CompetitionProf
More info here: euractiv.com/section/competi… 5/n
So, when the EC actually apologized for it? Via the spokesperson, at a press conference...in the middle of...August...Technically correct, but arguably...quite cheeky...Were you there @lewis_crofts or maybe @nicholashirst_ ? 6/n
Trade: Global Digital Trade Barriers by @CCIAeurope ccianet.org/advocacy/trade/g…
DMA critics: ''How dare regulators engage in product/services design, the customers are smart enough and know how to deal with technology'', same people: '' OMG, I cannot click directly on Google Maps, I have to open Maps on a separate windows, outrageous''🙃🙈🤣🤣
Per @POLITICOEurope our beloved academic @ProfSchrepel said “I question myself whether I want to dedicate my life researching competition law”, is that confirmed? Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree, but we still appreciate your huge contribution to competion law/policy!😉
Less than 3 weeks into DMA applying, some people said: ''How dare the EC to rush into opening investigations into compliance, outrageous!!". Also, same day, same people: ''look what is happening w/ (service x of a gatekeeper), this clearly shows how a failure the DMA is!!" 🙈🙃
Many comments about how ''pointless'' or ''useless'' the DMA compliance workshops: ''what was the point of them if a few days later the EC would open DMA investigations into the same gatekeeprs''? is more or less the question. This misses the point and the big picture 1/n
There's also a confusion on both sides (pro and against the DMA) that the opening of the investigations refute the nature of the DMA being an instrument that can be ''self-executed''. This again, confuses things in a reductionary way. 6/n