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Mette Alfter explores the Bundeskartellamt decision in the Facebook case.

As part of the Government’s Clean Air Strategy, the Plan aims to cut down air pollution from shipping to protect public health and the environment

The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) includes a wide range of behavioural and structural remedies applied to digital ‘gatekeepers’ in an attempt to stem what is perceived to be unfair practices by large Internet platforms.

Currency crises were supposed to be a thing of the past. Few major economies now try to fix their exchange rates.

In the last two years the internet bandwidth provided by telecoms industry proved its worth by bolstering the resilience of society and the economy in the face of the pandemic.

The UK’s CMA has often been cast as the tough cop on the mergers beat – quick to intervene, sceptical of behavioural remedies, and frequently at odds with its European peers.

The decarbonisation of buildings is key for the EU to achieve its climate goals. Buildings are responsible for almost 40% of total energy consumption in the EU and for over one third of the total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Indeed, the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ package’, which targets a 55% net reduction of GHG by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050 – identifies buildings as having huge potential for emissions reduction.

In this Q&A, we explore what’s driving this change, whether it challenges cloud dominance or simply shifts control elsewhere, and what it means for businesses, consumers and policymakers in 2025.