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Ryanair re-appeals Covid subsidies to Air France-KLM April 24, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

The billions of euros handed to Air France and KLM during the coronavirus pandemic face further scrutiny from EU judges, after Ryanair filed an appeal against the state aid regulator’s latest approval for the ... (more story)

EU’s cross-border aid programs need faster processes, governments urge April 17, 2025 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts

EU governments and businesses need shorter approval processes to exploit the full potential of joint projects that channel state aid to strategic sectors, the European Commission has been told. Governments are... (more story)

EU law for state aid exemption needs simplification, member states say April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte

The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)

China’s Goldwind uses EU FSR submission to attack investigation April 09, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst

An EU subsidy probe into Chinese wind-turbine maker Goldwind Science & Technology is untransparent and lacks a time-limit, according to the company. It aired the concerns in comments on future guidelines setti... (more story)

'Grossly understaffed' EU competition enforcers must prioritize, Guersent says April 08, 2025 | Jean Comte

The European Commission's competition department is having to compromise on enforcement because it is so understaffed, its director has warned. Olivier Guersent told a conference that it was more than 200 staf... (more story)

Power to 'modify' decisions could avoid unhelpful 'ping pong,' EU judge says April 03, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Giving EU judges the power to change a regulator’s decision and not just review its legality would avoid the “unsatisfactory ping-pong” of cases, according to Ulf Öberg, a judge at the EU’s lower-tier General Court.

Lufthansa's defense of Covid bailout set for May hearing at EU’s top court April 02, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Deutsche Lufthansa will defend its six billion-euro Covid-era recapitalization at the EU’s top court in early May, MLex has learned. The German flag carrier is appealing a lower court ruling that struck down t... (more story)

ADNOC seeks EU competition approval for Covestro takeover April 01, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has filed its plan to buy German chemicals group Covestro to the EU competition regulator for approval. The European Commission has set an initial May 12 deadline to decide on the 14... (more story)

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Dealmakers eying EU M&A get stark warning in subsidy review of UAE telecom buyout April 14, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst, Lewis Crofts and Andrew Boyce

The European M&A landscape for companies backed by foreign states looks more complicated, in light of newly published documents that show the dealmaking of UAE telecom operator Etisalat — known as e& — will fa... (more story)

ADNOC’s previous EU FSR clearance will help Covestro deal, but by how much? February 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company must feel its path to EU foreign-subsidy approval for its 14.7 billion-euro takeover of Germany's Covestro has been smoothed by the European Commission’s clearance of another lar... (more story)

Unleashing the EU's cross-border subsidy ‘giant’ is key to growth ambitions February 20, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Multistate, subsidy-backed projects in fields such as semiconductors, AI, advanced materials and clean tech will take center stage in the EU's push for growth and economic transition, as the European Commissio... (more story)

EU hydrogen bank’s state aid tool is here to stay December 26, 2024 | Stefano Porciello

The EU hydrogen bank’s option to use EU-wide auctions to guide national funding has the potential to align national and EU financial firepower toward common objectives. The tool developed for hydrogen is alrea... (more story)

Nuclear industry still unclear over EU policy direction after commissioner hearings November 13, 2024 | Stefano Porciello

Any hopes in the EU nuclear-power industry that lawmakers' questioning of candidates to front the next European Commission would bring clarity over the EU approach to sector’s future were frustrated again yest... (more story)

Comment: For Covestro deal, ADNOC should study EU foreign-subsidy troubles that e&-PPF had October 04, 2024 | Tono Gil and Andrew Boyce

Efforts by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to complete its buyout of Germany’s Covestro will undoubtedly include a close study of the remedies that Emirates Telecommunications Group recently offered to win ... (more story)

Comment: Need for speed will see Ribera revisit EU’s competition rulebook September 26, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

The edict is writ large for the EU’s new competition enforcer: go faster. When Teresa Ribera takes up the reins later this year, one of her main challenges will be to accelerate the machinery of enforcement, c... (more story)

PPF-e& clearance shows EU foreign-subsidy rules have room for compromise September 24, 2024 | Lewis Crofts

Dealmakers may have been concerned that the EU’s new foreign-subsidy rulebook might leave their transactions in limbo, but today’s decision to clear a United Arab Emirates-backed deal — two and a half months b... (more story)