Brussels, 02/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - To illustrate his point, on Wednesday 1 December, as he announced the extension of the temporary framework for state aid (see EUROPE 10268), Commission Vice-President Joaquín Almunia picked out a few figures from the “scoreboard” on state aid to the financial sector and to the real economy published that same day.
Financial sector. Almunia stressed firstly the importance of the aid made available by the Commission to this sector between October...