Glad to be BruxConf2024 for a packed agenda covering #Antitrust #DigitalCompetiion #FairMarkets 1st panel Andreas Schwab @ASchwab.bsky.social & Olivier Guersent EU Competition about importance of #DMA being futureproof & coordinating between EU Competition & National Competition Authorities

Industrial “strategy” is about “what we make in the United States and how we make it” Biden administration’s Heather Boushey Archived says.

Glad to be once again part of this great event! This year will be about how antitrust regulations need to be compatible with growth & innovation. This is a challenge for 🇪🇺 that we must address now ! 🗣️Join me live at 12.40 ⤵️bruxconference2024.clevercast.com/webcast/w-qodb… The Capitol Forum

We're onto the trade panel: I find myself trying to “build bridges” of understanding because our disciplines are siloed while everything is connected, says US Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai.

listening to the words of Ambassador Katherine Tai on tackling “bigness”, I wonder how long will be passed before we will fully take actions so that privacy and data protection too are used to explicitly tackle the unfair imbalance of power between tech giants and people BruxConf2024

Europe must rethink how to bring antitrust, industrial and trade policies together Franziska Brantner says.

Barry Lynn of Open Markets Institute: We need to admit that the world today is “on fire” as monopolization is threatening democracy and bringing on concentrations of capacity that can bring on conflict and war.

Europe can be hyper-dependant on other nations, says Stéphanie Yon-Courtin; competition must be at the “center of" a focus on re-industrializing the EU.

We're returning from lunch with an address from Didier Reynders. Didier is the Commissioner for Justice for the European Commission. Watch here: bruxconference2024.clevercast.com/webcast/w-qodb…

BruxConf2024 Andreas Schwab @ASchwab.bsky.social EU Competition Ramon Tremosa 🎗🌹 Cristina Caffarra Open Markets Institute Barry Lynn Rana Foroohar René Repasi Ambassador Katherine Tai USTR Stéphanie Yon-Courtin Paul Tang 🔝 panel starts with Teddy Downey from The Capitol Forum introducing🌟 Jonathan Kanter Antitrust Division explaining that we needed and need to talk to the people, normal people in the streets, farmers and speak accessible language to them that explain what is at stake #freedom #democracy

BruxConf2024 Andreas Schwab @ASchwab.bsky.social EU Competition Ramon Tremosa 🎗🌹 Cristina Caffarra Open Markets Institute Barry Lynn Rana Foroohar René Repasi Ambassador Katherine Tai USTR Stéphanie Yon-Courtin Paul Tang Teddy Downey The Capitol Forum Jonathan Kanter Antitrust Division @maxvonthun @chopracfpb FTC Rebecca Kelly Slaughter .Jonathan Kanter Antitrust Division we need to demystify #AI we made abd doing a lot to understand #ArtificialIntelligence and its implementation in the different sectors, markets will be affected danger of these markets tipping is there & it is real Andreas Schwab @ASchwab.bsky.social René Repasi

Competition & Markets Authority’s high profile over the past year is a “consequence of very conscious choices that we have made about making sure every piece of work we do has an impact,” CMA chief exec Sarah Cardell says

Starting now...

Our conversations with legal and industry sources in October indicated structural remedies may be needed for the deal: library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/82xw806tb… (cross-border effort w/ Charley Connor, Jacob Parry, Jeff Bliss & yours truly)

My colleague Eliot Gao also reported on concerns about the deal from Chinese industry & regulators days before the companies filed with SAMR: library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/85aeww8e5…

I said we would have a surprise #Grand_Finale tomorrow - the one and only @linakhanFTC! Brussels, “The Perfect Storm Conference”, tomorrow 30 Jan! ❤️

Happening now: A conversation with Sven Giegold Cristina Caffarra

At BruxConf2025 for a jam-packed day of groundbreaking conversation. Join us online if you're not in the room! bruxconference2025.com/livestream/

Attendees of Spring from ABA Antitrust Law Section next week should check out the Agenda Updates at link for late-breaking panel updates, like times of fireside chats with enforcers from around the globe. 1/3 events.americanbar.org/event/d8799c1f…

Veteran EU Competition Chief Dismisses Tech Fine 'Tariff' Claims as Political Theatre library.thecapitolforum.com/docs/8tk6qcd63… h/t Lydia O'Neal, Charley Connor, & Javier Espinoza