With Hikaru YOSHIZAWA (Kansai University)

In collaboration with Kansai University

Public discussion on how the European Commission can exert regulatory influence on digital platform firms (Big Tech), including leading American companies, in the field of antitrust control led by Pr. Hikaru Yoshizawa

In this hybrid seminar, Dr. Yoshizawa Hikaru (Kansai University) will examine why the European Commission can exert enormous regulatory influence on digital platform firms (Big Tech), including leading American companies, in antitrust control. The seminar will explore both how stakeholders such as rival companies came to play a key role in the landmark Google cases (2017-19), and whether the Commission’s influence is likely to increase even more in light of the EU’s Digital Markets Act and the global trend toward the stricter regulation of digital platforms.

The presentation is based on H. Yoshizawa’s open-access article (2024) on ‘Sources of the European Union’s Regulatory Influence on Digital Platform Firms: Lessons from Three Google Antitrust Cases’, published in Contemporary European Politics, 2, e13.

Hikaru Yoshizawa is an associate professor of international political economy at the Faculty of Law, Kansai University (Japan). He is an alumnus of the GEM PhD School and holds a double PhD from the ULB and the University of Geneva. His research centers on the internal and external dimensions of EU competition policy, and the regulation of digital platforms.

He is the author of European Union Competition Policy versus Industrial Competitiveness: Stringent Regulation and its External Implications (Routledge 2021) – see more here!

Monday, December 9, 2024, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Salle Kant
Institut d'études européennes ULB
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 39
1000 Bruxelles

The event will be held in English.

Register here!