The European Commission has opened a consultation on whether the threshold for state aid needs to be changed.

The European Commission has charged pharmaceutical company Lundbeck over patent settlements with generic drug makers that allegedly delayed the entry of generic products to the market, and is set to charge Servier over similar allegations.

Europe’s top antitrust enforcer says that US online search leader Google has given the European Commission “sufficient explanations” of its settlement proposals, allowing the two sides to move forward in discussions intended to end the agency’s two-year investigation of the company.

The European Commission is investigating 13 manufacturers of optical disk drives, including leniency applicant Philips, for allegedly participating in a worldwide cartel.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation of the €5.2 billion merger between logistics companies United Parcel Service (UPS) and TNT Express.

The European Commission has reportedly requested more concessions from Google in the mobile services market to drop its abuse of dominance investigation, while it takes steps to finalise a statement of objections.

Universal Music Group has offered to sell music assets and to accept behavioural commitments to obtain the European Commission’s approval for its £1.2 billion purchase of EMI Music, after a first proposal was rejected.

The European Commission has temporarily approved €1.7 million in state aid to prop up Portuguese state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD).

Microsoft has admitted it failed to comply with commitments agreed to close the European Commission’s browser antitrust investigation and now risks a high fine.

The European Commission has inspected the premises of several car part companies – the third round of raids in the sector in just over a year and the fourth since the beginning of its investigation.

The European Commission says it suspects four shrimp companies active in the North Sea of colluding to fix prices and share the market.

The European Commission has asked for comments on its plans to modernise state aid procedures, which the enforcer says will be the most far-reaching state aid reform in more than a decade.

The European Commission has opened a market test of Thomson Reuters’ second set of commitments, after a first round of remedies failed to allay abuse of dominance concerns.

Europe’s General Court has ruled that France’s €450 million subsidy to public television broadcaster France Télévisions is in line with EU state aid regulations.

Plastic pipe manufacturers Tessenderlo Chemie, Wienerberger and Wavin have confirmed they are among the companies inspected by the European Commission as part of a cartel investigation.