By Anna Ferrari ( November 5, 2026, 14:53 GMT | Insight) -- European governments want simpler EU state aid rules and greater legal certainty, requiring a “delicate balance” in the planned revision of rules that allow them to grant certain subsidies without prior EU approval, a senior European Commission official has said. The commission is working on the technical details of the definition of companies in financial difficulty for the revised so-called General Block Exemption Regulation, or GBER, in December.European governments want simpler state aid rules and greater legal certainty, requiring a “delicate balance” in the planned revision of rules that allow them to grant certain subsidies without prior EU approval, a senior European Commission official said Thursday....
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