Pt. 1. Introducing the European Competitive Environment. 1. The single market: competition in context / Debra Johnson. 2. The distortion of competitive forces: state aids / Ian Barnes and Pamela M. Barnes. 3. Articles 85 and 86: control of restrictive practices and abuses of dominant positions / Edmund Fitzpatrick. 4. Brussels and the control of merger activity in the European Union / Leigh Davison and Edmund Fitzpatrick. 5. Competition policy in the Member States: a case of convergence? / Colin Turner. 6. Social policy and competition / Campbell McPherson and Sue Stacey. 7. The external dimension of EU competition policy / Lee Miles -- Pt. 2. Case Studies. 1. Open skies over the European Union? / Leigh Davison. 2. Competition in European financial services: the banking industry / Max E. Good. 3. Competition policy: the Hungarian experience / Pal Majoros and Laszlo Nyusztay. 4. Transforming competition policy: the case of Sweden / Lee Miles
5. Let the Euro 'phone wars' begin / Andrew Mearman and David Gray. 6. Europe's energy sector / Debra Johnson. 7. EU railways: open access or natural monopoly? / Brian Milner