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Amazon to appeal EUR1.1 billion Italian antitrust fine for hampering logistics companies

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 09 Dec 2021 05:36
  • 09 Dec 2021 06:49
Amazon has said it will appeal a 1.1 billion-euro antitrust fine in Italy, calling it "unjustified and disproportionate."

The e-commerce giant underlined that many sellers thrive on Amazon.it, and disputed the idea that it enjoyed market power over them.

"More than half of all annual sales on Amazo

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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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