Bachelor Student Prize Winner

Eighteen students completed their bachelor's degree in 2021 with a thesis that was labelled ‘excellent’ by their faculty. Here you will find a short introduction to these excellent theses in the form of an "elevator pitch" from each student, plus a video in which the supervisor briefly addresses the lucky winner.

Evgenia Kokkou

  Faculty of Law | Bachelor European Law School

"The Applicability of Article 102 TFEU in the Digital Marketplace: Data-Related Abuses of Dominance by Online Platforms"

Evgenia's elevator pitch
Big data has become the new force for the EU digital marketplace and dominant online platforms rely on this data-gathering power to distort the competition with their rivals. Due to the absence of legal rules governing, in particular, the abuse of dominance by online platforms, the big players keep operating in a monopolistic way until they win a competition that should never end. This thesis assesses whether Article 102 TFEU can fill this gap in the legislation. However, the tricky question is to answer how it is possible to measure the effect of Article 102 in atypical situations, where instead of money, there is big data and instead of financial damage, there is an excessive access to user data.