November 4, 2026
On Wednesday, 4 November 2026, Prof. Dr. Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman lectured fifth-year law students at Epoka University. Her lecture is part of a series in the new course “EU Competition Law and Digital Market”, now offered to law students at Epoka University. The course was created within the Jean Monnet Module “EU Competition Law in the Digital Economy” (EU-COMP-DEC), co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Programme. It brings Albanian and European scholars into the classroom to examine how EU competition rules apply to the digital economy.
Prof. Pecotić Kaufman is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. She researches the enforcement of competition rules in European post-socialist countries. Her lecture covered the two pillars of EU competition law:
Students looked at how these provisions are interpreted and enforced and why they matter for digital markets. This sets up the next part of the course on market power, multi-sided platforms and the Digital Markets Act. The session also drew on Prof. Pecotić Kaufman’s research on competition enforcement in Central and South-East Europe, which is directly relevant to Albania as it aligns its competition law with the EU acquis.
The Jean Monnet Module is coordinated by Associated Professor Gentjan Skara (Department of Law, Epoka University). It brings together Albanian and European scholars to study how EU competition rules apply to the digital economy and what the Digital Markets Act means for candidate countries such as Albania.
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