Brussels, 09/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - State aid in the form of reductions in social security contributions granted by Italy between 1995 and 1997 to companies in Venice and Chioggia are unlawful and must be recovered, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled on Thursday 9 June. It rejected the appeals by the Comitato “Venezia vuole vivere”, Hotel Cipriani, Italgas and Coopservice against the 2008 General Court judgement which upheld the European Commission's 1999 decision which declared...