Originally published on the Verfassungsblog with Spencer Cohen.

Democracy in Europe is under threat. Competition law, given its history and potential as a tool of anti-domination, is a natural fit to protect and revitalise democracy in Europe. Yet the protection of democracy is habitually said to fall outside the proper scope of competition enforcement. Spencer Cohen and I, drawing from a paper that we published in JCLE, to show how competition law can, through a recalibration of its error cost framework, be used to safeguard against economic domination in markets.