Open Markets Institute applauds the 12 state attorneys general suing to block the Ellison family’s illegal, anti-democratic efforts to take over Warner Bros. Discovery properties and fold them into their Paramount-Skydance media empire.  

This decision is about European sovereignty and democracy as much as competition or bargaining power.

Policy and advocacy lead Giorgos Verdi argues that the EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is a promising step toward reducing Europe’s dependence on U.S. technology firms, but warned it will fall short unless Europe also confronts the market concentration that allows Big Tech to dominate AI, cloud, chips, and digital infrastructure.

Open Markets Institute has welcomed the European Commission's draft merger guidelines as a major, overdue modernisation of EU competition rules – part of a once-in-a-generation review – while also urging the Commission to close loopholes which risk undermining progress.

Food systems director Claire Kelloway argues that the egg price spike was not fully explained by bird flu, pointing instead to signs that concentrated market power allowed major egg producers to raise prices far beyond what supply losses alone would justify.

In this issue, we take a look at two new rules from Italy and the U.K. to help news publishers negotiate fair compensation for their content with AI corporations. We also preview our June 24 conference on combating oligarchy, which will feature keynotes from Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, and Chris Van Hollen.

Open Markets Institute issues a statement in response to the US Supreme Court’s precedent-shattering decision in Trump v. Slaughter.

Max von Thun and Claire Lavin argue that merger guideline progress is undermined by the introduction of a bias for scale and efficiency loopholes, which give large corporations more paths to complete a merger.

Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley argues that today’s renewed antitrust enforcement will only matter if courts impose meaningful structural remedies, including breakups and divestitures, rather than settling for judgments that merely identify illegal monopoly conduct.

The Open Markets Institute Europe welcomes the preliminary decision by the European Commission to designate Amazon and Microsoft as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.