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Gatekeeper platforms may be essential facilities, says EU lawmaker handling Digital Markets Act file

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 23 Feb 2021 07:14
  • 23 Feb 2021 07:14
Shouldn't certain services by Google, Apple and other "gatekeeper" platforms be deemed essential facilities? That's a question troubling Andreas Schwab, the lawmaker leading European Parliament discussions on new tech rules.

"Access to data or being ranked by an online platform can now be essential for business to compete in an onlin

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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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