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Balanced Economy Project
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We are a not-for-profit, globally-focused, anti-monopoly organisation whose mission is to reclaim our ability to restructure our economies, by collectively constraining corporate power and building a genuinely democratic economy.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 20h
BEP urges the EU to modernise antitrust rules. Regulation 1/2003 is outdated—Europe needs faster, stronger enforcement to tackle digital & global market power.

Read more:https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/gmkuaxyhei

#Antitrust #EU #DigitalMarkets #BEP
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 3d
As #Xbox raises Game Pass prices, former #FTC chair says it warned Activision deal would ‘harm gamers’ www.videogameschronicle.com/news/as-xbox...
As Xbox raises Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says it warned Activision deal would ‘harm gamers’ | VGC
Microsoft’s Activision deal ‘has been followed by significant price hikes and layoffs’…
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 6d
Big Tech wants to control digital ID. Our latest Counterbalance piece shows how Google & Mastercard are lobbying for systems that threaten public rights. Identity must stay public.

Read & share:

https://substack.pulse.ly/d1uqy8yuh7

#Antimonopoly #Bigtech
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 7d
Big Pharma’s cartel-like tactics are hurting the #NHS and patients are paying the price.

Along with @justtreatment.org & @globaljusticenow.bsky.social we call on the CMA to investigate the coordinated threats to pull UK investment.

Read the letter:🔗 www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/lette...
Campaigners demand investigation into big pharama’s “cartel-like” threats to the NHS — Balanced Economy Project
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 9d
NEW: We, @justtreatment.org and @balancedeconomy.bsky.social have written to ask the competition authorities to investigate Big Pharma’s campaign to push up the price the NHS pays for medicines, to see if it is in breach of competition law 👇🏽

www.politico.eu/article/ngo-...
NGOs demand UK competition authority probe pharma over investment pauses
A letter to the Competition and Markets Authority from three NGOs accuses companies of “suspected” anticompetitive behavior.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 13d
💥 £100bn in tech investment sounds great, but who's really in control? The UK-US deal is about power and who gets left behind.

https://substack.pulse.ly/1mrnuawpci

#TechJustice #DigitalPower #UKPolitics #Counterbalance #FairMarkets #BigTech #Substack
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 16d
Great work by @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social highlighting the #google situation as @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu has carried out with her #adtech decision.
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LobbyControl Tech @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social · 16d
Yesterday, we went to the EU-Commission’s headquarter in Brussels to protest for a Google break-up. Commissioner Ribera did the right thing with her adtech-decision. Now, she has to stay firm & resist pressure from inside the Commission & from the other side of the Atlantic. Time to break up Google!
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LobbyControl Tech @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social · 16d
Yesterday, we went to the EU-Commission’s headquarter in Brussels to protest for a Google break-up. Commissioner Ribera did the right thing with her adtech-decision. Now, she has to stay firm & resist pressure from inside the Commission & from the other side of the Atlantic. Time to break up Google!
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 17d
The UK’s competition watchdog is rebranding itself as “pro-growth.” But behind the headlines, a deeper shift is underway.

🔗 Read the latest Counterbalance analysis:
https://substack.pulse.ly/n2h5dxevho

#Antimonopoly #RegulationWatch#BEP #CivilSociety
UK competition watchdog doubles down on growth agenda
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance. This week we’re turning our focus back to the UK with a recent report from its competition watchdog.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 17d
The UK’s competition watchdog is rebranding itself as “pro-growth.” But behind the headlines, a deeper shift is underway.

🔗 Read the latest Counterbalance analysis:
https://substack.pulse.ly/zjysz6zebg

#Antimonopoly #RegulationWatch#BEP #CivilSociety
UK competition watchdog doubles down on growth agenda
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance. This week we’re turning our focus back to the UK with a recent report from its competition watchdog.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 23d
A Happy 90th to the world's favourite boardgame. #Monopoly taught us that if someone has all the money and all the properties, no one else can even play. Centralised power is good for the winners, a nightmare for everyone else!
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Royal Mint makes real Monopoly money with collectible 50p
A special limited edition 50 pence piece has been created to mark the popular board game's 90th anniversary.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 27d
This week’s Counterbalance lays out why structural remedies—not slap-on-the-wrist fines—are the only way forward.

📬 Read, share, and subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/q10r8abwql

#Counterbalance #Adtech #MonopolyPower #DigitalDemocracy #EUCompetition
Europe and Google: At a Crossroads
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance. This week, we’re continuing our look at the biggest competition case going: Google.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 27d
This week’s Counterbalance lays out why structural remedies—not slap-on-the-wrist fines—are the only way forward.

📬 Read, share, and subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/0m58zjmjdc

#Counterbalance #Adtech #MonopolyPower #DigitalDemocracy #EUCompetition
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 27d
Check out this week's Counterbalance for insights on the EU vs. Google's Adtech.

🔗 Read, share, and subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/woxmzscknf

#Google #BalancedEconomy #DigitalDemocracy
Europe and Google: At a Crossroads
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance. This week, we’re continuing our look at the biggest competition case going: Google.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 29d
470 organisations including the Balanced Economy Project have spoken with one voice.

Their message to President von der Leyen and the EU:

This Commission’s deregulation campaign threatens public interest. We denounce it

#EuropeanCommission #Antitrust,
https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/m5lwl9ntkq
Balanced Economy Project joins call to resist profit-driven policy ahead of EU Commission President State of the Union — Balanced Economy Project
Portrait of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission © European Union, 2025
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Sep 9
470 organisations including the Balanced Economy Project have spoken with one voice.

Their message to President von der Leyen and the EU:

This Commission’s deregulation campaign threatens public interest. We denounce it

#EuropeanCommission #Antitrust,
https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/fsma9vveho
Balanced Economy Project joins call to resist profit-driven policy ahead of EU Commission President State of the Union — Balanced Economy Project
Portrait of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission © European Union, 2025
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Sep 8
BEP has called for the European Commission to revitalise its assessment of mergers in a submission to a consultation on the revision of the EU Merger Guidelines.

#EuropeanCommission #BalancedEconomy, #Antitrust,

https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/r5alvg54ak
BEP calls for the EC to revistalise its assessment of mergers — Balanced Economy Project
Monopoly set
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Sep 4
Europe blinked. Big Tech wins a pause.

The EU’s landmark antitrust case against #Google’s #adtech monopoly is delayed

📖 Read our full take: thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/europe-bli...
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#BalancedEconomy #MonopolyPower #DigitalJustice
Europe blinks in the fight against Big Tech
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance newsletter. This week, we’re taking stock of Europe’s latest move on Google.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Sep 3
The #EU just delayed a landmark case against #Google — a setback for fair markets, innovation, and democracy.
When regulators flinch, monopolies tighten their grip.

Read and sign up to our weekly Counterbalance Substack thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/europe-bli...

#BalancedEconomy
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Sep 2
The reports that the EU is holding off action against #Google’s illegal AdTech monopoly take Europe’s democratic deficit to a new level.

Doing nothing hands #BigTech & the US state dangerous power, undermining Europe’s own competition laws.

#DigitalSovereignty #BreakUpBigTech #Antitrust #EU
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Sep 2
Industrial economics got us into this mess with big firms, big pain.

Accounting & Financial Analysis on sharper lens, real-time data, and fewer guessing games.

Want smarter competition tools? Start here. 👇

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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Aug 28
Antitrust now marks a core dividing line within the Democratic Party. On one side are the “abundantists”; on the other, the left populists who champion curtailing monopolies.

Lina Khan speaks to @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Lina Khan: “You can only undo so much in three and a half years”
The former chair of the Federal Trade Commission on the war against corporate power.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Aug 28
Our latest: The Great (Deregulatory) Escape by Donald Trump www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/civil... #competition #Trump
The Great (Deregulatory) Escape: President Trump’s revocation of Executive Order on Competition — Balanced Economy Project
President Trump has revoked former President Biden’s Executive Order on competition policy under the guise that top down competition regulations and competition agency rule-making are a barrier to gr...
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social · Jun 18
🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣

We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · Apr 23
Europe has fined Apple and Meta in a potentially watershed moment in the fight against monopoly power.

Read our story below:

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The EU slams Apple and Meta with a combined fine of almost $800 million  — Balanced Economy Project
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