As 2025 draws to a close, the SCiDA (Shaping Competition in the Digital Age) project reflects on a year of remarkable academic output, policy engagement, and collaborative research that has shaped discourse around digital markets regulation across Europe and beyond. Our team has grown and evolved, our research has deepened, and our contributions to the […]

Available on: Spotify Apple Podcasts 2025 Episode 1- DMA Review Consultation with the SCiDA Team The co-chairs of the SCiDA project, Professor Rupprecht Podzsun from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseld...

Following the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Japan has enacted a digital competition regulation (a form of sector-specific regulation that blends competition principles with prescriptive provisions, as Lazar Radic et al. 2024 describe) with a more targeted scope in the smartphone software ecosystem: the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). This blog throws some light […]

AI markets are booming across Europe and beyond, and competition and innovation in this sector have sparked extensive discussions worldwide. In just 22 days, the European Commission announced five investigations into artificial intelligence (‘AI’) related services, though not under the same regulatory framework. The investigations into Meta AI and Google AI Overview and AI Mode […]

Event was hosted by Thought Leaders 4 Competition in London The Competition Law & Artificial Intelligence Summit – 2nd Annual, held on 2 December 2025 at Carpenters’ Hall, right in the heart of London, brought together competition authorities, legal practitioners, and industry experts to explore the critical intersection of AI and competition law. With artificial […]

On 23 October 2025, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) delivered a landmark judgment in Dr Rachel Kent v Apple Inc. [2025] CAT 67, finding Apple liable for multiple abuses of dominance in relation to its App Store operations. The unanimous decision, spanning 396 pages, is a major development in cases concerning digital markets in […]

Digital Sovereignty has become the new buzzword in today’s European policy circles. The idea itself isn’t new, but its relevance to the EU’s digital economy has reached a fresh peak. The German-French Summit on digital sovereignty on 18 November 2025 in Berlin underlines Europe’s ambition to strategically reduce reliance on non-EU actors across critical layers […]

On 22 October 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority issued two landmark decisions that will reshape the UK’s mobile ecosystem for years to come. Following the CMA’s first designation decision on 10 October 2025 designating Google Search with Strategic Market Status (read about it in our blog here), the CMA designated both Apple and Google […]

Call for Abstracts: We invite submissions from scholars for a conference on the shaping of competition in the digital age, taking place on 26-27 May 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany. We are particularly looking forward to contributions that focus on the regulatory regimes in the EU (Digital Markets Act), the UK (Digital Markets Competition & Consumers […]

Call for Abstracts: We invite submissions from scholars for a conference on the shaping of competition in the digital age, taking place on 26-27 May 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany. We are particularly lo...

The Competition and Markets Authority issued its first SMS designation under the DMCCA 2024, targeting Google’s general search services. With over 90% market share for at least 15 years and £3-4 billion in supernormal profits from UK services in 2024 alone, Google’s dominance faces its first serious regulatory test. This designation opens the door to […]

Economists – assemble! This might have been the unofficial theme of the workshop on “The Economics of the DMA” hosted by the European Commission on 22-23 September 2025 in Brussels. In preparation of its DMA evaluation, the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) had assembled economic expertise from around the world to discuss the Regulation’s […]

The third annual UK Digital Markets Competition Regulation Forum by Thought Leaders 4 Competition, held on 23 September 2025, provided a comprehensive assessment of the UK’s first year under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA). With the CMA’s Digital Markets Unit having completed its initial SMS investigations into Google and Apple, the conference […]

The SCiDA Project has submitted its response to the European Commission’s consultation on the 2025 review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Our detailed recommendations, available at SSRN, draw on two years of comparative research analyzing digital markets regulation across the EU, UK, and Germany. By Team SCiDA A Strong Start Requiring Bolder Action We […]

by Anush Ganesh 27 Stakeholders Responded to the Google’s proposed SMS designation decision The Competition and Markets Authority’s consultation on designating Google Search with Strategic Market Status has concluded with one of the first stakeholder responses in the UK’s DMCCA chapter. Twenty-seven organizations ranging from Google itself to independent publishers, airlines to academic institutions have […]

The United Kingdom’s approach to digital market regulation has undergone a significant transformation in 2025. What began as legislative theory in May 2024 with the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) receiving Royal Assent has evolved into a sophisticated regulatory framework delivering tangible results. As we reach 20 August 2025, the close of consultation […]