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Merger control in the digital era – Portuguese Competition Authority podcast

  • 27 April 2020

On 27 April, CERRE Joint Academic Director Alexandre de Streel (Professor, UNamur) spoke to the Portuguese Competition Authority on merger control, data and the challenges for competition policy in the digital era.

The challenges for competition agencies that mergers bring about in the digital era are broad: they go from a) ensuring that the right deals are caught by the merger control systems, to b) developing the competitive assessment of these deals in an uncertain context, and to c) ensuring adequate design for remedies.

In this podcast, Professor de Streel shares his views and concrete proposals to address these challenges.

Alexandre de streel has contributed to this debate with several publications. Just recently he co-authored a CERRE issue paper on “Big tech acquisitions competition and innovation”.

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Alexandre de Streel
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and University of Namur

Alexandre de Streel is academic director of the digital research programme at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He sits in the scientific boards of Centre for a Digital Society of the European University Institute (Italy), the Centre for Competition Policy of the University of East Anglia (UK), the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).

His main research areas are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regulatory advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission and has been the chair the expert group on the online platform economy advising the European Commission.

Alexandre de Streel is academic director of the digital research programme at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He sits in the scientific boards of Centre for a Digital Society of the European University Institute (Italy), the Centre for Competition Policy of the University of East Anglia (UK), the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).

His main research areas are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regulatory advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission and has been the chair the expert group on the online platform economy advising the European Commission.

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