{"id":109518,"date":"2026-06-16T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/109518\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:15:21","slug":"competition-tribe-decamps-from-washington-to-brussels-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/109518\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition tribe decamps from Washington to Brussels \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very timely to launch this in Europe,\u201d said Stefan Sagebro, a competition and industrial policy expert at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have this big yearly summit in this area, because competition rules are so relevant in many areas and have a very high political relevance as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While unofficially pitching itself as a \u201cEuropean ABA,\u201d the door isn\u2019t shut to America or to the conversation between the continents. Former DoJ antitrust chief Slater will be onstage in Brussels to discuss \u201ctransatlantic bridges\u201d after her grim departure earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/lobbyists-antitrust-trump-davis-f6a02e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">amid a lobbying scandal<\/a> involving a Trump ally.<\/p>\n<p>Renata Hesse, who chairs the American Bar Association\u2019s antitrust section, will also attend. The ABA has defended its values vigorously since Trump returned to office in Jan. 2025, emphasizing diversity and inclusion; the group ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/16\/american-bar-association-sues-trump-00409204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">suing the Trump administration<\/a> for intimidating lawyers through targeted executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>Ribera said the forum won\u2019t need to borrow a brand as it will rapidly establish its own identity. \u201cThe value of a forum like this is not that it mirrors any existing model,\u201d she said, but that it helps maintain a dialogue between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping the conversation open does not mean that we will always agree,\u201d said Ribera. \u201cBut dialogue helps build understanding, reduces uncertainty and strengthens cooperation where our objectives align.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, lawyers won\u2019t be abandoning the original ABA meeting: With the lion\u2019s share of business still coming from across the Atlantic, most antitrust shops in Brussels are either American or have integrated with their U.S. peers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in a world where agencies in the U.S., the EU and the U.K. can coordinate on major transactions in real time, law firms need to offer \u201ca single transatlantic platform,\u201d said Stephen Whitfield, a partner at Winston Taylor \u2014 a law firm itself born of a transatlantic merger this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s very timely to launch this in Europe,\u201d said Stefan Sagebro, a competition and industrial policy expert at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[1528,26258,211,2611,3285,210,55408,174,2042,19062,55409,184,55410,55411,3160,19066,55412,55413,1445,17938,1536,26698,294,76],"class_list":["post-109518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-americas","tag-antitrust","tag-belgium","tag-big-tech","tag-brazil","tag-brussels","tag-cartels","tag-china","tag-competition","tag-competition-and-industrial-policy","tag-competition-rules","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu-competition","tag-fiona-scott-morton","tag-japan","tag-lobbying","tag-margrethe-vestager","tag-mario-monti","tag-platforms","tag-south-africa","tag-tariffs","tag-teresa-ribera","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116762334018864063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}