And that sort of fairness is more important than we may sometimes realize.Very few people think about politics all the time.Some even skip it at election time.But we are all in the market. Every day, we are in the market.And we don't want businesses to agree on prices in the back office.We don't want them to divide the market between them.We don't want one big company just to shut out competitors from ever showing us what they can do.If that happens, well, obviously, we feel that someone has cheated us,that we are being ignored or taken for granted by the market.And that may undermine not only our trust in the market but also our trust in the society.In a recent survey, more than two-thirds of Europeans said that they had felt the effects of lack of competition:that the price for electricity was too high, that the price for the medicines they needed was too high,that they had no real choice if they wanted to travel by bus or by plane, or they got poor service from their internet provider.In short, they found that the market didn't treat them fairly.
