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Abstract The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and State aid. After providing a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist’s team (CET), this article surveys some of the main developments at the Directorate General for Competition over 2022/2023. In particular, the article reviews the Commission antitrust investigation of Amazon marketplace and the Amazon “Buy Box”, the expansion of manufacturing support with two recent frameworks for manufacturing aid, and the MOL/OMV merger.