Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP)

The European Commission has a plan to tackle the housing squeeze even as it acknowledges that its powers are limited.

Academic becomes the third Italian to take influential post after a previous U.S. pick was forced out.

Economy Minister Wille Rydman says crisis cash is undermining the single market.

Telecom giants see long-awaited opening to gobble up smaller firms to scale to level of U.S., Chinese rivals.

Judges say the European Commission made errors in assessing the search giant’s advertising contracts with publishers.

The world’s largest company has racked up fines, taxes and investigations in a region where it says it can’t sell its latest tech.

Court wins against Apple and Google seal the EU antitrust chief’s legacy as a forceful foe of Big Tech.

Margrethe Vestager said she’d been told to brace for defeat on Apple’s challenge against tax state aid finding.

The Court of Justice said Google’s practice of favoring its own shopping search results over rival services “was discriminatory.”

Competition czar Margrethe Vestager said the surprise victory vindicates her battle against corporate tax deals.

The EU’s top court rules on final appeals of Apple’s state aid payback and Google’s first big antitrust fine.

Top EU court says supporters can’t demand the European Commission investigate any unfair subsidy to French football clubs.

Judges tell merger regulators to stop scooping up anti-competitive deals outside revenue thresholds.

Three lawmakers say the competition chief shouldn’t be choosing a competition economist just weeks before she leaves.

Thoughtless tweets cost competition cases, warns economist Fiona Scott Morton, whose EU job hopes were dashed by French lobbying.

European Commission came under heavy Italian political pressure to allow Lufthansa to buy Italy’s troubled airline.

Software giant’s truce with cloud providers ends a two-year dispute and the threat of an antitrust probe.

Emily O’Reilly warns that ex-European Commission officials risk bringing valuable information and insights to corporate clients.

Competition chief Margrethe Vestager said she was satisfied.

Tech giant may be giving its video call service ‘undue advantage’ over competitors, EU’s Vestager said.

The outgoing EU competition chief is amping up legal action against the iPhone maker.

The iPhone maker is the first company to be told it may not be complying with the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

Clearance will diffuse tensions between Brussels and Rome over a deal that keeps Italian carrier flying.