Brussels, 21/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 20 September, the European General Court rejected a request by France for a European Commission 2010 decision to be cancelled. The decision requires France to scrap illegal state aid to the country's post office, La Poste, in the form of an implicit financial guarantee arising from the special legal status of La Poste in the past as an “Etablissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC).”
In its decision of 26 January...