Antitrust Antitrust

Comment: EU's sanction of BMW, VW, Daimler walks tightrope between novel and classic cartel

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
  • 08 Jul 2021 11:47
  • 08 Jul 2021 11:47
German carmakers accuse the EU's antitrust regulator of veering into uncharted territory today by sanctioning them for a cartel around technical talks, rather than traditional price collusion.

Industry guidance on what contacts are legal, as well as an exceptional 20 percent fine cut, show the European Commission is wise to th

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Lewis Crofts

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Lewis leads MLex's editorial strategy, content direction, quality and development. He has a reputation for breaking stories and providing analysis on complex legal disputes before regulators and courts around the globe. He has also developed MLex's unrivalled coverage of competition policy, litigation, regulation, Brexit and international investigations.

Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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