Never ever since the eruption of the financial markets crisis in 2008/2009 has any event turned the world of EU State aid control law as topsy-turvy as the Covid 19 pandemia, which has set on its Jules Verne tour around the globe, however without terminating...
As early as in January 2019 the European Commission started its fitness check performed on the current legal framework for EU State aid control. Said project sounded, at least when hearing about it in the first place, quite comprehensive. It encompassed the General Block Exemption...
Since the old and the new Competition Commissioner, Margarethe Vestager, has taken office in 2014, one could develop the impression that State aid control encompassed little more than the so-called „Tax Rulings“. Looking at the famous Apple case, where in August 2016 the Commission had found...
