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Amazon, eBay probed in Italy over coronavirus-related products

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 12 Mar 2020 11:12
  • 12 Mar 2020 11:38
Amazon and eBay are being probed by the Italian antitrust authority over products used to protect against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The authority today said it was investigating whether high prices and misleading claims related to such products on the companies’ platforms broke the law.

The watchdog is also scrutinizing behavior

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


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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