Matthew Newman

Chief correspondent Europe

Matthew Newman is Chief correspondent Europe for MLex and writes about mergers, antitrust and cartel investigations. Matthew began covering competition at the Luxembourg courts in 2004 and then moved to Brussels. After working as a spokesman for the European Commission until April 2012, he spent several months in Washington, DC writing about mergers for MLex. He spent a year studying French, history and communications in Grenoble, France and is a graduate of Boston University with degrees in history and journalism.

Selected insights by Matthew

Online retailers at risk of national divergence on EU product-sales rules, official says

19 November 2018

Leadiant given pause for thought by Dutch view of 'orphan drug' price hikes

14 November 2018

Asus, Philips fines show EU's first foray into pricing algorithms

24 July 2018

McDonald’s probe tests EU competition department's power over tax treaties

11 January 2018

Facebook’s German antitrust probe hinges on market power of network effects

8 January 2018

Watch repairers take antitrust fight against luxury-goods makers to EU’s top court

3 January 2018

Whistleblower calls out 'encrypted' promotional products cartel

6 September 2017

Google has much to gain, little to lose in legal fight against EU antitrust decision

8 August 2017

Views on algorithms and competition law expose EU-US divide

26 May 2017

Gazprom probe reveals limits of applying EU antitrust law

13 March 2017

Expedia deflects antitrust case at German court as hotels’ complaint rejected

20 February 2017

Facebook won’t face a fine in German antitrust probe of privacy terms

3 February 2017

Google’s Pichai to meet EU antitrust chief Vestager on Friday

16 November 2016

Intel’s victory in EU court opinion may prove short-lived

20 October 2016

Vestager, Gazprom to meet this month on antitrust charges

5 October 2016

UK minister promises ‘clarity’ on farm support, policies post-Brexit

21 July 2016

Google’s antitrust woes deepen as EU ramps up charges in search, advertising businesses

14 July 2016

Starbucks’ ruling by EU raises questions about profit shifting

8 July 2016

EU court defeat shows peril in applying ‘selectivity’ to tax regimes

18 December 2015

EU should be cautious about regulating Internet platforms, Vestager says

18 June 2015

Antitrust agencies should be wary of ‘excessive pricing’ cases in patent disputes, Hesse says

17 June 2015

‘Hold-up’ cases against patent holders lack ‘systematic’ economic evidence, Wright says

12 June 2015

EU decisions on tax-sweetener cases expected in ‘the next months,’ Koopman says

29 April 2015

EU ruling on Spanish tax breaks spells trouble for probes into Luxembourg

10 November 2014