COVID-19 pandemic bolsters market power of digital giants, need for cooperation among rivals — Mundt
03 June 2020 - 12:00 am UTC
The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered the market power of online platforms and caused an economic crisis necessitating cooperation to re-establish supply chains, the president of Germany’s competition authority Andreas Mundt told PaRR in an interview.
The president of the Bundeskartellamt (Bkarta) pointed to several challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to the agency, noting that the acceleration of digitisation, complaints by third-party dealers against Amazon and the need to allow certain types of horizontal cooperation.
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