The Future of Competition Policy in Europe – Some reflections on the interaction between industrial policy and competition law

By Ioannis Lianos (University College London)

The paper explores the interaction between industrial policy and competition law, in particular merger control in Europe. It reflects on the tensions. actual and perceived between these two policies and critically assesses the substantive and institutional solutions that have been proposed, In particular in the recent Franco-German Manifesto for a European industrial policy fit for the 21st Century.

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