Tag: State Aid

The Commission has today recommended that Member States do not grant financial support to companies with links to countries that are on the EU's...

EU antitrust regulators launched an investigation into about €282 million (US$318 million) in Czech State aid granted to the country’s postal operator for providing...

By S. Gerhard Dijkstra and M. Ibrahim Quadri (Cornerstone Research)1   Introduction Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Member States have implemented measures to contain the spread...

The Portuguese government’s decision to grant national airline TAP a €1.2 billion (US$1.37 billion) rescue loan was approved by the European Commission’s competition authorities...

Tech start-ups across Europe are struggling to access coronavirus support schemes because of EU state aid rules, industry groups from several countries say, threatening...

Giorgio Monti (Tilburg Law and Economics Center)1   1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the Commission respond readily to state aid measures: protocols established in 2008...

Brussels plans for a further relaxation of its rules on State aid have been caught up in an increasingly hard-fought pan-European debate over whether...

Modern football creates unprecedented investment pressures on clubs, which leave them exposed to high levels of financial risk. This risk is often diluted by...

The European Commission has found that rail freight operator CFR Marfa received at least €570 million incompatible State aid from Romania through a debt...

December 2018 CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents: State aid recovery ends where private savings begin rules General...