MPP candidate Brianna Rock examines changes in EU policy surrounding digital mergers, and how they have paved the way for the dominance of Big Tech companies.
An ideological shift in the European competition policy in early 2000s inspired by the US Chicago School of economics led to new rules adopted in 2004. The implementation of the new rules was accompanied by lower intervention rates on average. This period has become problematic as it has coincided with large digital mergers that paved the way for the dominance of Big Tech companies.
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