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Deutsche Bahn charged with hampering online ticket sales by German antitrust authority (update*)

Deutsche Bahn has been formally charged with harming competition in the market for selling train and other transport tickets, the German competition authority said today (see here). 
The German rail incumbent withholds “essential” data from mobility platforms, the Bundeskartellamt said, making it more difficult to inform customers for example about

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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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