Brussels, 23/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - On 23 February, the European Commission required Greece and Italy to recover illegal aid (state aid contravening EU legislation).
Italy must recover operating aid worth some €18 million granted by Sardinia in 2004 to three big energy-using companies, Portovesme (zinc and lead), ILA (aluminium products) and Eurallumina (aluminium) in the form of subsidised electricity prices. After detailed investigations that started in 2006, the Commission says that...