The inaugural European League of Sports Antitrust annual event, "Sports Antitrust 2025: The Year in Review" was hosted by Kings Chambers on 28 January 2025. The panel of esteemed speakers addressed key cases and themes from 2025, and gave their insights into trends to look out for in 2026. Following the event, ELSA published the first annual briefing, which you can access here:

Originally published on Geradin Partner's Thicket Blog . On 2 June 2025, the European Commission announced that it had fined Delivery Hero and Glovo a total of €329 million for engaging in anticompetitive sharing of commercially sensitive labour market information, market sharing and for agreeing not to poach each other’s employees. Delivery Hero and Glovo are two of the largest food delivery companies in Europe, delivering food (prepared by a restaurant or a professional ki

Since the landmark Meca-Medina judgment in 2006, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") and the European Commission have built a framework that continues to shape how Europe balances regulatory autonomy with competition principles. This short post provides a whistle-stop tour of some of those key decisions. Meca-Medina: setting the analytical test In Meca-Medina and Majcen v Commission (C-519/04 P, 2006), two professional long-distance swimmers challenged the co