Brussels, 21/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 17 November, the Court of Justice of the EU agreed with the requests of the European Commission to condemn Italy (Case C-496/09) to a daily fine and the payment of a fixed sum as the country failed to recover, in full and within the deadline laid down as it was obliged to do by a previous ruling of 2004, state aid ruled illegal and incompatible with the single market.
In a decision of 11 May 1999, the Commission ordered Italy to recover...