Dirk Auer and Gus Hurwitz on the EU’s Google Shopping Decision
ICLE Director of Competition Policy Dirk Auer and Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz were quoted by The Drum in a story about Google’s failed appeal of the European Commission’s shopping inquiry. You can read the full piece here.
And in the telling of Dirk Auer, the director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, for these tech giants, “the DMA is is way stronger than competition law has much tougher provisions.“
…“It is remarkable that [this CJEU] opinion, demonstrating European hostility to innovation and backwards attitude towards the global, digital economy, would come out only one day after that report was released,” says Gus Hurwitz, senior fellow and academic director at University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition.
…Whether the CJEU’s verdict today will have any bearing on these other appeals remains to be seen, but Auer, for one, is skeptical. ”It’s not impossible, but it’s unlikely that on a subsequent Google Android appeal, [for example] the higher court, the Court of Justice, would set aside the lower court’s assessment.”
…Similar investigations are also underway in the UK, underscoring the global nature of regulatory efforts to rein in big tech’s market power. In Auer’s telling, ”there is a huge appetite, both in the US and the EU, to go after tech firms.”