Brussels, 15/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - The French state's attempts to save the company SeaFrance at the end of 2011 were unlawful, says the General Court of the EU in a ruling (case T-1/12) handed down on Thursday 15 January.
The now wound-up maritime transport operator SeaFrance, which plied the Calais-Dover crossing, was indirectly 100% owned by the French public entity the SNCF. From 2010, French authorities tried to save the operator which was in financial difficulty, first by putting...