On Thursday 7 December, Advocate General Melchior Wathelet proposed referring the case (C-438/16 P) concerning the undue economic advantage it is suspected that the French institute IFP Énergies nouvelles derives from the unlimited public guarantee it enjoys from the French State on its activities of an economic nature to the General Court of the European Union (EGC).
Up until 2006, IFP Énergies nouvelles, which carries out research, training and information missions, was a body under...