European competition policy needs a fres • Table.Briefings

By André Loesekrug-Pietri

André Loesekrug-Pietri, Vorsitzender der Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), der europäischen Initiative für Sprunginnovationen — André Loesekrug-Pietri is chairman of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), the European initiative for leap innovations.

The Directorate General for Competition needs to be radically reformed because its strategy and competencies are no longer appropriate for the technological world of the 21st century, writes André Loesekrug-Pietri of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI). The EU authority is contributing to the decline of European competitiveness, he says.

The originally planned appointment of Fiona Scott Morton as Chief Economist of the Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) has triggered an intense controversy because of her nationality and the risk of conflicts of interest from her previous functions – antitrust of the Obama administration, consultant for Apple and Microsoft. Polemics aside, it is important to underline a little-mentioned problem affecting DG COMP: the full lack of results in the field of digitization and technology of this „state within a state“ within the European Commission, which has been going on for more than 20 years.

European competition policy needs a fresh start

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