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Since the UK legal system opened shop for collective actions in 2015, and following the Supreme Court’s judgment in Merricks v Mastercard on the certification threshold, applications for Collective Proceedings Orders before the Competition Appeal Tribunal have swelled from a trickle to a deluge.

Europe’s race to net zero is under serious threat—not because of a lack of ambition or renewable potential, but because the electricity grid isn’t ready. Frontier brought together energy leaders in Brussels last month to discuss a fundamental, if often overlooked, reality: without a step-change in grid investment, the whole system risks seizing up.

The European Competition Network (ECN) put out a joint statement on March 23 on the application of competition law during the Covid-19 crisis.

Historically, environmental policy has taken a backseat when the economy has required attention. The assumption is that productivity suffers at the hands of regulation, as resources are redirected from output to compliance.

The new German government must address the introduction of a capacity market promptly. The integration of flexible consumption devices and batteries has played a key role in the discussion so far. In a study for the German Association of the Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), we show that the creation and use of decentralized flexibility can be incentivized in a variety of ways within an integrated capacity market. 

Joy is central to our wellbeing. But it barely features in government spending decisions. Drawing on his research and work with the OECD, Professor Paul Dolan argues that this distorts public spending outcomes – and that joy deserves a place in economic appraisal as a legitimate policy objective.

All those scooter drivers whizzing round towns in a variety of colourful jackets to bring food and shopping to your door strike many people as something new.

The UK government recently published its “Levelling up White Paper”[1] which defines 12 missions to guide the UK government.