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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11167
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) state aid

Reimbursement of legal aid - big tab for aviation sector

Brussels, 01/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 1 October, the European Commission took a series of decisions following in-depth investigations into state aid in the aviation sector. Two airports, Zweibrücken in Germany and Charleroi in Belgium, and four airlines will have to pay back several million euro of aid received.

In the case of Zweibrücken airport, in Germany, the Commission found that both investment aid and operating aid paid to its operator since 2000 were incompatible...