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Ryanair pushes EU to recover ‘illegal’ Covid-19 state aid from rivals

By Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst ( November 5, 2025, 16:52 GMT | Insight) -- The low-cost airline used a meeting with European Commission officials to reiterate arguments that the French and German governments should recoup state aid disbursed to Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa during the Covid crisis, after EU judges annulled authorization for the funding. It also raised concerns over Google’s compliance with the Digital Markets Act. Low-cost airline Ryanair said it met with EU state aid regulators last month to press its case that they should force Lufthansa and Air France-KLM to reimburse state aid received during the Covid 19 pandemic, after the authorizations for the funding were struck down by judges....

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