Common competition policy is one of the original common policies of European integration.
Founding members of the European Economic Community recognised properly the need for …

With the central and eastern European countries (CEECs) increasingly included into the
international division of labour in the European economic space, we are prompted to ask …

Competition policy in the Western Balkan countries has recently gained in significance, in
parallel with the acceleration of their EU accession process. Competition policy played a …

The article addresses, from a mainly economic perspective, the analysis of the competition
pol-icy in the European Union and its contribution to the process of consolidation of the …

In 2001 the International Competition Network was created by the competition authorities of
14 jurisdictions, and today it has 138 members. This rapid growth was due to the …

Purpose: In this paper, we lay out the analysis and provide an overview of the functions
carried out by the national competition authorities in the Western Balkan countries and …

Debate kets to ensure that competition is the driving engine of the economy. The second,
which is unique to the European Union, is that of the maintenance of the Single Market, the …

For more than ten years now, the Commission has launched a series of important reform
initiatives in order to respond to the challenges of the fast changing and increasingly …

As regards the geographical scope of this chapter, two qualifications must be made: one is
that most of the following will be confined to the countries of Central-Eastern Europe …

This study reviews the progress made in EU accession candidates on competition policy.
The analysis shows that institution‐building and legislation are well under way and that anti …