Press releases

Today, The European Consumer Organisation has applied to be an interested third party to the European Commission’s competition investigations into Google’s Android and the WhatsApp/Facebook merger cases.

The European Commission has wrapped-up its investigation into the EU’s e-commerce sector. Today’s findings identified business practices which may restrict the purchase and sale of goods and digital content within the Single Market – ultimately hampering consumer choice and inflating prices.

Today the European Commission accepted the commitments of Amazon in its e-books antitrust case.

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) undertook a consumer performance check of the first two-and-a-half years of the Juncker Commission.1 We looked at the Commission’s legislative initiatives and its key policy actions and graded their performance on a scale from very good to very bad.