Lazar Radic on the EU’s iMessage Decision

Lazar Radic February 13, 2024

ICLE Senior Scholar Lazar Radic was cited by Reuters in a story about Apple and Microsoft winning exemptions from the EU’s Digital Markets Act for iMessage and Bing, respectively. You can read the full piece here.

Lazar Radic, an antitrust expert at the International Center for Law and Economics, said: “It is a good sign that the Commission has considered market realities, instead of just slapping the ‘gatekeeper’ label on iMessage because it fulfills certain quantitative thresholds.

“This suggests the Commission is capable of avoiding the temptation to over-regulate.”