Brussels, 11/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 10 May the European Commission announced that it has extended its investigations, underway since 2007, into the former German national postal monopoly, Deutsche Post AG. This extension related to subsidies paid by the German state to the business to “cover the costs of the pensions of those employees, past and present, who have a civil servant status”, the press release states.
The German authorities argue that these subsidies are...