The Digital Markets Act (DMA) has the potential to not only revolutionise the framework for EU competition law in its current form, but also transform the application of fundamental rights. As part of the EU’s wider digital agenda and together with its twin regulation the Digital Services Act (DSA), the DMA aims at ending the negative connotations of notoriously under-regulated and economically motivated internet use, while at the s...

This paper, on the Bundesverfassungsgericht’s Weiss judgment of 5th May 2020, highlights three implications of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling and its constitutional significance with implications for the wider context of Member States’ cooperation in the EU and European integration as a whole. We explain the relevant background of the judgment and argue that the specific issue created by the judgment might ...