Competition and Energy Markets: What Role for Competition Policy in the Current Geopolitical Context?

Competition and Energy Markets is a pivotal and timely volume that provides guidance on how to address the crucial trade-offs that arise when competition policy meets other challenging European objectives. The extraordinary double crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine has given rise to an unusual geopolitical dilemma for the EU institutions — especially in the energy sector — of ensuring the security of energy supply and upholding committed emission targets concurrently.

This compendium comprises contributions from eminent practitioners and academics, members of the European Commission, and representatives of national competition authorities, addressing affordability of energy prices, EU energy infrastructures, solidarity amongst Member States, reform of the electricity market design and competition enforcement, State aid tools, and competition enforcers' perspectives.

Contents: The New EU Energy Dilemma; Affordability of Energy Prices; EU Energy Infrastructures and Solidarity Amongst Member States; The Reform of the Electricity Market Design and Competition Enforcement; EU State Aid Tools; Competition Enforcers' Perspectives on the Energy Dilemma.

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Q&A

Who is this book for?
Competition lawyers, energy regulators, and EU policy practitioners navigating energy security and emissions trade-offs.

What crisis prompted this book?
The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which created an unusual dilemma between energy security and EU emission targets.

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